This article is dedicated to the investigation of gender stereotypes expressed in the Spanish language picture of the world on the material of Spanish proverbs about women and men. In the course of the investigation, we classified gender stereotypes to 6 types: age-related, descriptive, psychological, social, functional and sexual and gave examples for each type.
The main element of the language is the word and its lexical meaning, the system lexical meaning - this information is a complex structure closely related to the problem of the sign: its semantics, pragmatics, syntactic. The content side of the language does not copy the external substrate, but expresses it in a specifically refracted system of lexico-semantic objects, it (the content side of the language) correlates primarily with perceptual information that underlies human cognitive activity, where this topic comes into contact with cognitive linguistics, the purpose of which is to identify ways of thinking about the world and compose “the picture” of its reflection in the language, what is commonly called the “linguistic picture of the world”. Keywords: linguistic meanings, semantic, functional-syntactic, formal-grammatical, derivational.
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