Gender in Phraseology: Creating Vocabulary as a Method of Research

Abstract

Issues in the field of gender linguistics are raised in order to look for the answer to a question as to how languages and the collective conscience of different societies reflect gender stereotypes. The paper focuses on the problem of gender in language on the idiomatic level, analysing phraseology of three Slavonic languages – Belarusian, Polish and Czech. Idiomatic phrases of the three languages are included in the vocabulary and the process of its creating is considered to be a method of analysing linguistic material within the framework of comparative research. The first part of the paper describes some special problems of lexicography which occur while dealing with the gender subjectmatter. In the second part of the article there is a list of main problems concerned with research on the trilingual vocabulary of gender idioms.