PRAGMATIC AND PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF EXPRESSING GENDER

The term gender has generally been used in social or cultural science in 70 years of twenties century. In the early period of gender linguistics, scholars were busy with analyzing terminological and semantic difference of 'gender' and 'sex'. Later, the term of gender has been investigated in linguistics to distinguish male and female features in language in general. Furthermore, it has been studied as Gender linguistics and a great number of scholars have examined the usage of gender in collaborating with different linguistic aspects such as sociolinguistics, pragmatics and psycholinguistics and its peculiarities in the development of literature. That is to say, gender is not only to study as feminine is to female and masculine is to male. Thus, It is also determined by the growing interest of linguists and language learners to the studying the role of gender from the point of view of pragmatics and psycholinguistics in literature. Still much is left to investigate.