K článku Jany Valdrové „Žena a vědec? To mi nejde dohromady.“

• Authors: Chromy Jan

Title variants

EN

ON THE ARTICLE 'ZENA A VEDEC? TO MI NEJDE DOHROMADY'. BY JANA VALDROVA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper reacts to the article by Jana Valdrova, 'Zena a vedec? To mi nejde dohromady' (Nase rec 1/2008). This reaction is based on some doubtful aspects of the research presented: 1. Jana Valdrova uses the concept of markedness in a nontraditional sense compared to the one known, for example, from Roman Jakobson. The problem with which she is concerned is not a question of whether a generic masculine noun is or is not unmarked, but rather, a question of the frequency of one of the meanings of the unmarked member of the correlation pair. 2. The selected method of testing the associations evoked by the generic masculine does not prove the statement that 'generic masculine is usually associated with the image of a man', because it leaves out the role of the context and does not analyze the plural forms of the professions examined. In this paper, the author proposes another test to prove the assumptions in a slightly more effective manner.

Keywords

EN

GENDER LINGUISTICS; GENERIC MASCULINE; MARKEDNESS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 197-201
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chromy Jan

• Jan Chromy, Ustav pro jazyk cesky AV CR, v.v.i., Letenska 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/3622/

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CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05627