Gender features of the concept “Beauty” in the English language.

Abstract

The article is written within the framework of gender linguistics or linguistic genderology that is one of the topical issues of modern linguistic researches. It is devoted to the gender representation of the concept “Beauty” in the English language. It posits the study of figurative means giving positive aesthetic evaluation in English. The author outlines basic lexical units representing the concept “Beauty” and makes analysis. The central to this paper is the figurative representation of the concept “Beauty”, the linguistic interpretation of this phenomenon from the point of view of its figuratively associative content. It explores the role of figurative vocabulary in the formation of the aesthetic picture in the English language.