The study is aimed at describing various aspects of the context that influence interpretation of a Russian prohibitive construction Noun-Dat.Pl + нeльзя ‘should not’ + Verb-Inf. For this the data of the corpus “Russian Web 2011” (15.8 billion words) were used: the queries for several most frequent nouns encoding gender roles (women, men, girls, boys, mothers, fathers, wives, husbands) are analyzed. The study showed that for different cases different degree of broadness for the context is important. Firstly, it is syntactic features of the construction (the elements it consists of and the word order). Secondly, it is the semantic-syntactic features (the semantic role of the dative argument and the meaning of the infinitive). Thirdly, it is the surrounding elements within the sentence or the neighboring sentences. However, in many cases an even broader cognitive and cultural context plays a significant role, thus, one should also pay attention to the topical domain of prohibitions and how the topics are related to the social role expectations existing as background knowledge shared by the members of a community.
Translated title of the contributionГендерные роли в русских запретительных конструкциях: корпусное исследование
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationModeling and Using Context
Subtitle of host publication10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2017, Paris, France, June 20-23, 2017, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages647-661
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-57837-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-57836-1
StatePublished - 2017
Event10th International and Interdisciplinary conference on modeling and using context - France, Paris, France
Duration: 20 Jun 201723 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Volume10257
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference10th International and Interdisciplinary conference on modeling and using context
Abbreviated titleContext-17
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period20/06/1723/06/17

    Research areas

  • Social roles , Speech acts, Gender groups, Gender stereotypes, Prohibitive constructions, Semantic roles, Frequency lists

    Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Science(all)

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