EMOTIVE VOCABULARY AS GENDER’S REPRESENTATION IN THE DETECTIVE NOVEL

Kiseleva Irina Dmitrievna

Aim. The aim of the article is to prove the hypothesis that gender can be represented with the help of emotive vocabulary and there are gender peculiarities that influence emotive vocabulary. Methodology. The material for the study was the contemporary detective novels “The Cuckoo’s Calling”, “The Silkworm” written by R. Galbraith (a penname of J.K Rowling). A continuous sampling method is used to collect examples of emotive vocabulary: endearment words, interjections, intensifiers, obscene words, vocabulary indicating an emotional state and assessment; analysis and synthesis were used to study the results; comparative analysis was applied to identify differences between masculine and feminine types of gender. Results. The analysis showed that emotive vocabulary reflects gender in the text and the results obtained depict differences between masculine gender and feminine gender. Women often use affectionate words and vocabulary indicating an emotional state and assessment, men often use intensifiers. It is also important that women choose a literary language, and men choose obscene words. Research implications. The findings contribute to the gender linguistic researches and knowledge about gender representation and can be used in lexicology, stylistics and text linguistics.

Keywords:gender, gender linguistics, emotive vocabulary, communication space, woman, man, masculinity, femininity, detective novel, J.K. Rowling