Gender-Related Linguistic Stereotypes in Romanian
Gender-Related Linguistic Stereotypes in Romanian

Summary/Abstract: This paper relies on Putnam (1975) and defines a stereotype as a set of properties which are thought to be possessed by the objects that lie in the extension of the term and which everyone speaking the language in question must know in order to use the term correctly. On this view stereotypical reasoning enables the speaker to have access to a useful, although limited, type knowledge. Our paper reports the findings of two surveys that we conducted in Constanta among Romanian teenagers and undergraduates and establishes some of the gender-related linguistic stereotypes that can be found in Romanian society. The main tenet of this paper is that gender-related linguistic stereotypes act as guides as to where to seek confirming or disconfirming empirical evidence for real gender linguistic differences.

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