Feminines in structural-systemic and cognitive-functional perspective (based on female names in end 20th and early 21th c. Russian) Cover Image

Феминативы в структурно-системном и когнитивно-функциональном аспектах (на материале имен лиц женского пола в русском языке конца ХХ - начала ХХI вв.)
Feminines in structural-systemic and cognitive-functional perspective (based on female names in end 20th and early 21th c. Russian)

Author(s): Jolanta Miturska-Bojanowska, Ljudmila Araeva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie

Summary/Abstract: J. Baudouin de Courtenay and many later scholars have since long spoken about “linguistic sexism”. Our research in Russian lexicon also point at such an asymmetry in the names of males and females. The material contained here is analyzed from a structural and cognitive word-formation perspective.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XIII
  • Page Range: 17-27
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian