Gender Stereotypes in the Language Picture of the World

Abstract

The following work is a representation of theoretical grounds of gender stereotypes phenomena in language as well as an attempt to display concepts of femininity and masculinity in English language by means of such fixed language structures as phraseology. It argues that in the English picture of the world the concept of “Woman” is presented in more negative light in comparison to the concept of “Man” where the former is associated with natural weakness while the later with masculine strength

Keywords

• gender
• stereotype
• masculine
• feminine
• concept
• phraseology