A Cognitive Study of the Instrumental View Towards Women in Russian and Greek Linguistic Communities

Subject Areas : INTERCULTURAL STUDIES QUARTERLY

Hamed Akbarpour ¹ (PhD student, Department of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
Ali Alizadeh ² (Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
Shahla Sharifi ³ (Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)

Received: 2022-04-22 Accepted : 2022-05-30 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, grammatical gender, Russian and Greek, Female Instrumentalism,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to study and cognitively compare the cultural distance between the two non-adjacent language communities of Russia and Greece in terms of instrumental view towards women from the perspective of cultural linguistics. For this purpose, 330 common tool-words in the comprehensive German list were equated into these two languages and then the frequency of feminine grammatical gender in them was extracted as an indicator in the theoretical framework of the research. The results of the Chi-square test with a significance level of 0.416 show that the difference between the two frequencies is not significant but still exists and the feminine grammatical gender in Greek tool-words is more than Russian. The insignificance of this difference can be found in the cultural convergence based on common religious foundations, the spread of Greek cultural conceptualizations to Russia, the commonalities of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the proximity of basic human values. On the basis of this study, the instrumental view towards women among Russians is less than the Greek.

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