Dubenko Elena
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Heliyon. 2024 Oct 18;10(20):e39510. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39510. eCollection 2024 Oct 30.
The subject of grammatical gender and cognition has been continuously examined in psycholinguistics, wherein findings show essential support for gender congruency effects, suggesting that grammar lends matrices for speakers' mental representations. Based on these psycholinguistic data, this study offers an innovative vista of investigation that combines typological and cognitive linguistic approaches. Its purpose lies in determining whether grammatical gender patterns sanction cross-linguistic universality in conceptualising entities as male or female, and whether grammatical gender universalities have semantic motivation. This research reveals universal tendencies in grammatical gender affiliation of the analysed nouns in 32 two and three gender languages belonging to different groups of the Indo-European, Indo-Iranian and Afro-Asiatic language families. From a cognitive perspective, these findings testify to the identical mental images of the entities denoting artefacts, natural phenomena and abstract concepts in speakers of the languages under consideration. Furthermore, grammatical gender universalities manifest certain semantic dimensions involving the motives associated with masculine or feminine and symbolic suggestions of the Woman archetype. As per the data from cognitive poetics, grammatical gender universalities become objects of special stylistic choices emerging as personified images of symbolic relevance in gender and non-gender languages.
语法性与认知这一主题在心理语言学中一直受到持续研究，研究结果显示对性别一致性效应有重要支持，这表明语法为说话者的心理表征提供了框架。基于这些心理语言学数据，本研究提供了一种结合类型学和认知语言学方法的创新研究视角。其目的在于确定语法性模式在将实体概念化为男性或女性方面是否认可跨语言普遍性，以及语法性普遍性是否具有语义动机。这项研究揭示了属于印欧语系、印伊语系和亚非语系不同语族的32种两性和三性语言中，所分析名词的语法性归属的普遍趋势。从认知角度来看，这些发现证明了在所研究语言的使用者中，表示人工制品、自然现象和抽象概念的实体具有相同的心理意象。此外，语法性普遍性体现了某些语义维度，涉及与男性气质或女性气质相关的动机以及女性原型的象征意义。根据认知诗学的数据，语法性普遍性成为特殊文体选择的对象，在性别语言和非性别语言中以具有象征意义的拟人化形象出现。
