Sexism and Recognizing the Relation between Grammatical Gender and Cultural Categories in the German and Russian Languages from the Perspective of Cultural Linguistics

Kamyabigol, Atieh; Sharifi, Shahla; Akbarpour, Hamed

doi:10.22059/jwica.2020.296931.1399

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

² Associate Professor Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

³ PhD Student in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

https://doi.org/10.22059/jwica.2020.296931.1399

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify and analyze the effects of cultural categories as an effective factor in development and determination of grammatical gender in languages. The category under consideration in this study is the category of tools as a very ancient category in human history. This study did not have a diachronic approach and all analyzes were presented synchronically. For this purpose, 330 common tools in German and Russian were examined in terms of grammatical gender. In this particular case, the Chi-square test showed a significant difference in the frequency of females in the instruments between the two languages; with a statistic value of 9.332 and significance level of 0.002. Therefore, based on the theoretical framework used in this study, namely cultural linguistics, it was found that the cultural identity of the German speakers towards "woman", from the perspective of the above said framework, is more gendered and instrumental than the Russian speakers.

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Sexism and Recognizing the Relation between Grammatical Gender and Cultural Categories in the German and Russian Languages from the Perspective of Cultural Linguistics

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Volume 11, Issue 4
January 2020
Pages 481-511

Sexism and Recognizing the Relation between Grammatical Gender and Cultural Categories in the German and Russian Languages from the Perspective of Cultural Linguistics

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Volume 11, Issue 4January 2020Pages 481-511

Volume 11, Issue 4
January 2020
Pages 481-511