Review article

GENDER OF THE NAMES OF PROFESSIONS

Eugenija Ćuto

Abstract

In the Russian language masculine names of professions and jobs are used when refered to females in formal style. There is a limited group of nouns that can form twin feminine names used in neutral style. Feminine names of professions and jobs with the help of the suffixes –ша, -ха, -лка, -чка are used in informal style and contain some shade of scorn. From the end of the twentieth century the research in gender linguistics has been developing rapidly dealing with the problems of the relations between gender
and a language. Gender linguistics tries to explain why the masculine
predominates in the professional terminology and makes an attempt to change the rule. Names of professions and jobs in the Russian language are formed with the help of suffixes as well as by adoption from other languages.

Keywords

names of professions; the language evolution; gender linguistics; suffix word-building

Hrčak ID:

17045

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/17045

Publication date:

12.1.2006.

Article data in other languages: russian

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