A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF FEMINITIVES IN BULGARIAN, POLISH AND RUSSIAN

A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF FEMINITIVES IN BULGARIAN, POLISH AND RUSSIAN

The subject of this article is the contemporary usage of feminitives (specifically the names of occupations and functions), which traditionally are most often derived from masculine names. The article presents a contrastive analysis of feminitive usage in three Slavic languages: Bulgarian, Polish an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cognitive studies (Warsaw) 2019-01, Vol.19 (19), p.1-12
Hauptverfasser: Sosnowski, Wojciech Paweł, Satoła-Staśkowiak, Joanna
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Asymmetry
Bulgarian language
Comparative Linguistics
Contrastive analysis
Eastern Slavic Languages
Feminism
feminitives
Gender
Gender-inclusive language
language asymmetry
Language usage
Linguistics
Philology
Polish language
Professions
Russian language
Slavic languages
Social research
South Slavic Languages
Theoretical Linguistics
Western Slavic Languages
Women
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Zusammenfassung:The subject of this article is the contemporary usage of feminitives (specifically the names of occupations and functions), which traditionally are most often derived from masculine names. The article presents a contrastive analysis of feminitive usage in three Slavic languages: Bulgarian, Polish and Russian. The article examines the problem of linguistic asymmetry in the creation of feminine names in the three languages and presents the views of renowned linguists on the issue.
ISSN:2080-7147
2392-2397
2392-2397
DOI:10.11649/cs.1922