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Contextual sensitivity of the lexemes učiteľ [teacher] and učiteľka [female teacher]
Contextual sensitivity of the lexemes učiteľ [teacher] and učiteľka [female teacher]
Author(s): Lujza UrbancováSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: female teacher; teacher; grammatical gender; lexical meaning; contextual sensitivity; socialized meaning of a lexeme
Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the lexical meaning of lexemes female teacher, teacher (male teacher and a generic meaning of the lexeme), which might be in Slovak influenced by context and discourse as well as by attitudes and gender stereotypes of interlocutors. In pragmatic research, the author focuses on semantic indeterminacy as an implicit component of lexical meaning determined by the socialization of interlocutors. Analysis of the lexemes female teacher, teacher and their collocations with the adjectives typical, crazy, burned out, in different contexts, has shown that the gender of the person referred to has an influence on the meaning. The implicit or socialized meaning of the lexemes of the feminine gender is frequently associated with those phenomena that are percieved negatively in society, while the names of the masculine gender do not contain this component.
Journal: Jazykovedný časopis
- Issue Year: 73/2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 380-394
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English