Representation of Images of Men and Women in Russian Phraseology: General Characteristics (Based on Media Texts)

   The purpose of this work is a general description of the representation of phraseological names of men / women in the speech of modern native speakers of the Russian language on the material of media texts.

   In the course of the study, the following intermediate tasks were solved: a quantitative analysis of phraseological units nominating a man and a woman in modern media texts was carried out; the features of their stylistic and emotionally expressive coloring were revealed; the selected phraseological units were classified into thematic groups, conclusions were drawn about their relationship. The methods of observation, continuous sampling, quantitative and contextual analysis, systematization and classification of linguistic material are used in the work. It is shown that the number of stable combinations nominating a woman in the usage exceeds the corresponding indicator of units naming a man. However, not all of them belong to the active language stock: the third part of the entire corpus of selected phraseological units is not found in media texts, which can be explained by their folklore and dialect origin, the presence of outdated elements in their composition or book coloring, which is not always appropriate in journalistic discourse. Models with "lady" and "gender" components are actively used. In modern media texts, bookish, colloquial and colloquial turns are most widely used; often the usual book coloring in the context is reduced by creating an ironic intonation. Phraseological units representing the images of men and women are thematically grouped into three groups - according to the social, physiological and psychological characteristics of a person. The most widely represented group of phraseological units naming the social characteristics of a person (the ratio of the three groups is 3 : 1 : 1). Within each thematic group, the phraseological names of women outnumber the corresponding nominations of men quantitatively.

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