VOL. 61, BOOK 1, PART B, 2023, pp. 228 – 241 Full text (En)
Author: Natalia Basisa
Affiliation: Neofit Rilski South-West University
Abstract
A connection between gender and language studies exists, as language mirrors social, cultural and gender asymmetries. Hellinger and Bußmann (2015) indicated that language has built a male-centered worldview, while according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (Sapir 1929: 211): “the language is not only a product of a society, but also means of formation of its intellection and mentality”. Idioms convey principles of cultures, so they are the main source for gender-linguistic studies. The aim of this paper is to investigate, through corpora and dictionaries, whether idioms bear a sign of gender bias and if the English language has become more neutral.
Key words: gender, language, idioms, culture, corpora
