Verbalization of the concept “Woman” in English Phraseological Units
Abstract
The phraseological structure of language represents special interest for researchers in sphere of gender linguistic, as it contain all «cultural-national visions» of each nation. The attention to given problem is caused by an inexhaustible opportunity of phraseological fund ―to keep and transfer information matrixes‖ , to express features and attitude of native speakers and to reveal a national originality of communicative behavior of people. Studies of language and gender asymmetries in it are based on hypothesis of Sepir-Uorf: the language is not only a product of a society, but also means of formation of its intellection and mentality. As a gender stereotypes we understand «cultural and socially caused opinions about qualities, attributes and rates of behavior of representatives of both genders and their reflection in language)). Asymmetries are treated as a various sort of discrepancy (associative, connotative and other plans) in semantic volume formally and lexically similar units