THE CONCEPTS “MAN” AND “WOMAN” IN THE ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGY

The following article demonstrates parameters which create gender stereotypes; enlightens the main factors of the gender concepts “man” and “woman” on the material of English genderly marked phraseological units, i.e. phraseological units which contain in their structure a component denoting a man or a woman. The author gives statistic information about genderly marked phraseological units belonging to different semantic groups (appearance, social status, marital status, intellectual skills, etc.). The author has worked out the process of gender conceptualization of genderly marked phraseological units on three levels (semantic, associative and conceptual). Keywords: gender, concept, stereotype, masculine, feminine, phraseology, genderly marked phraseological unit, lingual world view.

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