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ГЕНДЕРНІ СТЕРЕОТИПИ У СФЕРІ ЧУТТЕВОГО СПРИЙНЯТТЯ
GENDER STEREOTYPES IN THE SPHERE OF SENSE PERCEPTION

Author(s): Kateryna Tulyulyuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Semantics
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: gender analysis; gender stereotypes; sense perception; sense perception words;

Summary/Abstract: The given article is focused on gender stereotypes envisaged in collective consciousness designed through language. They are undoubtedly fixed in language on all levels and closely connected with estimation expression forms. Representaion of perceptible and rational cognition essence of the surrounding through gender analysis assists understanding of specific sensory words functioning in the literary text. Gender stereotypes in the field of sense perception play an important role in the field of sense perception words usage in the literary works of male-authors and female-authors. The complex study of linguopragmatic peculiarities of lexico-semantic field of sense perception, its structure and functions taking into account the aspect of gender should be done according to the basic research of gender stereotypes existing in people’s consciousness. They have a substantial influence on the specific usage of lexical units belonging to the lexico-semantic field o “sense perception” in the men’s and women’s narratives. The impact of gender specificity of the author on his sensory perception of reality and its reflection in his/her fiction is significant and that’s why the integrative study of sense perception words functioning in the text with consideration of gender analysis proves to be topical, as the present-day multifaceted linguistic research focuses on systematic study of language units. The study of sociopsychological stereotypes of masculine and feminine qualities fixed in literature, incarnated in the authorial world picture, individual authorial look to the characters and their description, authorial consciousness and objective-subject system, that appear in the specific features of literary style of male-authors and femaleauthors is influenced by the process of evolutional and cultural transformations.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 37-39
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Ukrainian