Lozytska M. Linguacultural and Pragmatic Aspects of Gender Marked Phraseological Units in Modern German Language

The dissertation deals with the research of gender marked phraseological units in modern German language. The source material, which was examined, included 828 gender marked units. By means of this corpus, which was formed on the basis of phraseological dictionaries, fiction texts and the German language corpus DWDS, linguacultural and pragmatic aspects of gender marked phraseological units were analyzed. The study made it possible to determine the degree of gender sensitivity of the German language at the level of phraseology, which is characterized by gender asymmetries, but some gender-symmetrical phraseological units can be createt. Linguacultural views on gender are most clearly expressed in gender stereotypes that represent cultural specificity in phraseology. The great variety of structural gender markers made it possible to distinguish linguistic and cultural groups of gender marked phraseology depending on the key structural component. Gender marked phraseological with a zoonym component have a special national and cultural specificity. Such phraseologies in German indicate men or women and imply a certain characteristic of them, which depends on the views of culture on the animal that is a component of the phraseological unit. The pragmatic aspect of gender marked phraseology takes place primarily in the so-called pragmatic phraseological units, which form a relatively small group and are characterized mainly by masculine markers. The role of women and men in German society is pragmatized on the basis of cultural connotations in proverbs, with a feminine and masculine component. The analysis of the use of symmetrical gender marked phraseological units in publicist discourse revealed that overcoming linguistic sexism in language does not mean overcoming it in speech. Gender marked phraseology is widely used in fiction. Gender marked phraseology provides the heroes of fictional texts with originality and uniqueness. Author’s neologisms serve as an additional source of enrichment of the vocabulary of a certain language.