ON QUESTION OF RELATEDNESS OF BIOLOGICAL SEX, GRAMMATICAL GENDER AND GENDER

Abstract

The article studies the question of correlation between gender dichotomy (femininity / masculinity) with the dichotomy of gram-matical gender in languages (feminine/ masculine). The theory of semantic symbolism is considered from a critical point of view. It is proved by the material of the examples of nouns morphological classifications from different languages that biological de-terminism is not a factor that adequately explains the origin of gender category in language. Consequently, it is crucial to distinguish between the notions of grammatical gender and gender in contemporary gender studies, and to delimit these two notions from the notion of biological sex.

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• Published: September 27, 2013.

Keywords

• гендер
• мужественность
• женственность
• гендерная дихотомия
• грамматический род
• биологический пол
• семантический символизм
• gender
• masculinity
• femininity
• gender dichotomy
• grammatical gender
• biological sex
• semantic symbolism

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