ELEMENTE DE LIMBAJ SEXIST ÎN LIMBILE ROMÂNĂ,
ENGLEZĂ ȘI SPANIOLĂ – STUDIU CONTRASTIV
SEXIST LANGUAGE ELEMENTS IN ROMANIAN, ENGLISH AND SPANISH - A CONTRASTIVE STUDY
Author(s): Raluca Ghenţulescu, Florina-Cristina HerlingSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, Gender history, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Editura Conspress
Keywords: idioms; proverbs; stereotypes; sexism; discrimination;
Summary/Abstract: Due to an unfortunate past, in which women, as well as people of different origins were regarded as inferior beings by the majority of the male population, in many languages, both Latin and Germanic, there are a lot of idiomatic expressions with negative connotations about these “minorities”. The Other – seen as any person belonging to another gender, race, nationality or sexual orientation – is perceived as strange, wicked or misfit. This negative attitude towards women is usually reflected at the lexical level, in the idioms used in the conversations with or about them. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide a contrastive study in three languages – Romanian, English and Spanish – of the expressions with sexist connotations, in order to identify the similarities and the differences between them and to get a clear picture of what lies beneath them, at the level of collective mentalities in various societies.
- Issue Year: XII/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 39-51
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Romanian