Linguistic and cultural studies traditions of lingual and gender studies

Aklyan Jean-Christian

Everyday life of people, stereotypes, individual roles and assessment of actions are due to the gender relations. The term “gender” relates to the position of men and women in society, their social and psychological characteristics, and expected norms of behavior. Thereby it is perceived as a “social sex”, as despite the biological sex there are various stereotypes and phenomena in real life that are attributed to women or men. Sex reveals the differences between popular cultural stereotypes, changing roles, status, different behaviors, and sensory systems. The role of gender in language has been carefully studied for over two decades in Western Europe and the United States. Until recently, the researches of the concept of gender in Russian scientific circles were rather indirect, however now there is every reason to believe that genderology in linguistics has taken place as an independent direction.

Keywords:gender, genderology, social sex, linguistics, language, sex, psychology, gender studies, development of genderology.