THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES OF JUSTIFICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF GENDER IN LINGUISTICS

Abstract

The research is dedicated to the study of the concept of “gender” in linguistics. The concept of “gender” includes a set of social and cultural norms that have been transformed in the process of evolution from biological to socio-psychological category. Subsequently, the gender of a person from a biological characteristic was transformed into a socio-psychological characteristic, which is considered as a socio-cultural, discursive and psycholinguistic phenomenon. Currently, a new branch of linguistics, linguistic gender studies or gender linguistics, is studying the differences between the sexes. Gender self-identification is part of the cognitive resources of both the individual and society. Accordingly, gender can be seen as a dimension, as a parameter of research in many sciences. In addition, the recognition of the theory of distinction allows a more reasonable statement of the principle of interdisciplinarity in gender studies. This approach is typical both at the level of research of specific problems and at the level of substantiation of gender asymmetry in general. The concept of gender is included in the linguistic description in order to emphasize the social aspects of gender and related cultural traditions and stereotypes that are fixed by language and in the most direct way affect behavior and self-identification, the study of this phenomenon certainly deserves close attention linguopragmatics, theories of communication and language influence, sociolinguistics and a number of other linguistic sciences. As the results of research in the field of gender have shown, the special literature pays great attention not only to specific facts, but also to terminology in this area of knowledge.