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<p>The study deals with the lexical meaning of lexemes <italic>female teacher, teacher</italic> (male teacher and a generic meaning of the lexeme), which might be in Slovak influenced by context and discourse as well as by attitudes and gender stereotypes of interlocutors. In pragmatic research, the author focuses on semantic indeterminacy as an implicit component of lexical meaning determined by the socialization of interlocutors. Analysis of the lexemes <italic>female teacher</italic>, <italic>teacher</italic> and their collocations with the adjectives <italic>typical</italic>, <italic>crazy</italic>, <italic>burned out</italic>, in different contexts, has shown that the gender of the person referred to has an influence on the meaning. The implicit or socialized meaning of the lexemes of the feminine gender is frequently associated with those phenomena that are percieved negatively in society, while the names of the masculine gender do not contain this component.</p>
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The study deals with the lexical meaning of lexemes female teacher, teacher (male teacher and a generic meaning of the lexeme), which might be in Slovak influenced by context and discourse as well as by attitudes and gender stereotypes of interlocutors. In pragmatic research, the author focuses on semantic indeterminacy as an implicit component of lexical meaning determined by the socialization of interlocutors. Analysis of the lexemes female teacher, teacher and their collocations with the adjectives typical, crazy, burned out, in different contexts, has shown that the gender of the person referred to has an influence on the meaning. The implicit or socialized meaning of the lexemes of the feminine gender is frequently associated with those phenomena that are percieved negatively in society, while the names of the masculine gender do not contain this component.

Contextual Sensitivity of the Lexemes <italic>Učiteľ</italic> [Teacher] and <italic>Učiteľka</italic> [Female Teacher]

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Contextual Sensitivity of the Lexemes  [Teacher] and  [Female Teacher]

The study deals with the lexical meaning of lexemes female teacher, teacher (male teacher and a generic meaning of the lexeme), which might be in Slovak...

Contextual Sensitivity of the Lexemes Učiteľ [Teacher] and Učiteľka [Female Teacher]

Published Online: Mar 27, 2023

Page range: 380 - 394

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0014

Keywords
female teacher, teacher, grammatical gender, lexical meaning, contextual sensitivity, socialized meaning of a lexeme

© 2022 Lujza Urbancová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Contextual Sensitivity of the Lexemes Učiteľ [Teacher] and Učiteľka [Female Teacher]

Published Online: Mar 27, 2023

Page range: 380 - 394

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0014

Keywordsfemale teacher, teacher, grammatical gender, lexical meaning, contextual sensitivity, socialized meaning of a lexeme

© 2022 Lujza Urbancová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
female teacher, teacher, grammatical gender, lexical meaning, contextual sensitivity, socialized meaning of a lexeme