On the "men" in skirts and the dominative masculinity Cover Image

О "мужчинах" в юбке и доминирующей маскулинности
On the "men" in skirts and the dominative masculinity

Author(s): Alla Mstislavivna Archangel'skaja
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: androcentrism; masculinity; femininity; domination; stereotypes of masculinity and femininity; syntactic phraseologism; the model "the man in the skirt"

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies the semantic and pragmatic potential of female nominations, which arised as a result of gender transposition (i.e. the syntactic phraseologisms formed on the model "the man (masculinical — who, what) in the skirt"). Some formal and semantic aspects of those nominations are described here taking into account the principle of dominative masculinity as a consequence of the androcentricity of languages of the postpatriarchal type as well as the impacts of stereotypes of masculinity and femininity. An investigation is made on the material of Russian last decade media, including electronic sources, fiction texts, online forums and blogs.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-18
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian