REFLECTION OF GENDER STEREOTYPES IN GERMAN PROVERBS

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of “stereotype”, “gender”, “gender stereotype”. It is about gender constructs in the German language and their cognitive aspects in the German-speaking area. The author has identified the linguistic gender problem and on the example of the German proverbs was proved that the language fixes the picture of the world from the man’s point of view where femininity is mainly introduced as the object but not the subject of the action.