Gender stereotypes in Bulgarian and Croatian idioms with a zoonymic component

Ovaj rad se bavi istraživanjem rodnih stereotipa u bugarskim i hrvatskim frazemima koji za sastavnicu imaju domaću životinju, a odnose se isključivo na referenta muškog ili ženskog spola. Na početku rada dan je kratak pregleda razvoja frazeologije kao znanstvene discipline u Hrvatskoj i Bugarskoj, zatim se govori o obilježjima frazema u obje frazeološke tradicije i objašnjavaju se glavne postavke rodne i zoonimske frazeologije. Metoda koja je korištena u radu je kontrastivna analiza, uspoređeni su frazemi prema podacima iz rječnika, ali je njihova upotreba provjerena pretragom korpusa hrvatskog i bugarskog jezika Uočeno je snažno poklapanje rodnih stereotipa u oba jezika u velikom broju domena. Muškarce se smatra snažnima, svojeglavima, oholima, ali i stoičnima. Uz žene se vezuje manjak intelektualnih sposobnosti, smatraju se brbljavima te se velika pozornost obraća na njihov fizički izgled.This thesis deals with gender-specific stereotypes in Bulgarian and Croatian idioms that have a domestic animal as a component and that refer to only one gender. At the very beginning, a short overview of the development of phraseology as a science in Bulgaria and Croatia is provided, then the characteristics of an idiom in both Bulgarian and Croatian phraseology are described and the main theoretical framework of gender and zoonymic phraseology is defined. The methodology used in this thesis is lexis-based contrastive analysis applied to a collection of Bulgarian and Croatian idioms. To note the gender-specific use of an idiom, a search was performed in the corpora of Bulgarian and Croatian languages. A significant overlap of gender stereotypes in both languages was observed in substantial language domains. Men are considered to be strong, stubborn, arrogant, but also stoic. On the other hand, women are considered to be intellectually deficient, chatty and considerable attention is given to their physical appearance