Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2018.086.04
Croatian and Russian phraseology through the lens of gender
Anita Hrnjak
orcid.org/0000-0002-2660-7332
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb
Abstract
In Croatian phraseology, until recently, there has not been a systematic research of gender elements
in idioms. Gender has remained almost entirely outside the scope of research interest of Croatian
phraseologists. In order to fill this gap in the linguistic study of gender, extensive research was conducted
into gender-marked idioms, which is presented in this paper. The research included gender-marked idioms
of the Croatian language in comparison with Russian idioms as an attempt to show how gender stereotypes
appear on the phraseological level in Croatian and Russian and how the concepts of MASCULINITY
and FEMININITY are formed in the two languages by using phraseological mechanisms. The results of
the research have shown how gender is generally conceptualized as a socio-cultural category and how
the concepts of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are created on established images and stereotypes inherent in the
phraseology of these two related languages and cultures that use them. Furthermore, the research has
confirmed the assumption of the dominant similarity between the conceptualization of ‘woman’ and
‘man’ in the Croatian and Russian androcentric oriented culture as reflected in phraseology and has shown
insignificant differences, conditioned by specific national and cultural stereotypes and the established
notions of the gender roles among individuals of both sexes.
Keywords
phraseology; gender stereotypes; Russian language; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
214242
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2018.
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