Tambov
All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

METAPHOR AND GENDER IN CATEGORIZATION PROCESS

METAPHOR AND GENDER IN CATEGORIZATION PROCESS


Author:  Elena S.Gritsenko

Affiliation:  Reseach Linguistics University of Nizhny Novorod

Abstract
This paper refers to the role of metaphor in conceptualizing social reality and describes a peculi-ar semiotic phenomenon ('metaphorical gender') when 'male' and 'female' features are detached from things which have real gender distinctions and transferred onto other things on the basis of culture-specific ideas of masculinity and femininity. It also presents a hypothesis that gender metaphors can be coded in the grammatical systems of languages and determine the grammatical gender of nouns.

Keywords:  metaphor, gender, culture, conceptualization, categorization, associations, meaning, ideology.

Pages:  13-17

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