Author: I.G. Serova
Abstract:
The article deals with the explanatory potential of the apparatus of cognitive linguistics for describing the process of the linguistic construction of gender. Gender categorisation is treated from the point of view of systemic and functional types of categorization. The potential of such notions as cognitive matrix, category, concept, prototype, gender stereotype is being analyzed and illustrated.
Keywords: Gender categorization, cognitive matrix, category, concept, prototype, gender stereotype