Means of indicating age in Russian and Chinese

Yan Zhuo

It is known that at the beginning of the XX century, there was an increased interest in gender aspects. Many linguists noted the need to study the speech of people of different ages and social strata. G. Paul noted that "there are as many separate languages as there are individuals". On the basis of the so-called "primitive languages" began to accumulate experience in studying the differences between male and female versions of the language, later it began to move to the "civilized" European languages: English, French, German. And already at the end of the XX century, a separate direction of sociolinguistic research was finally formed – gender linguistics, which considers all types of language and speech variation that are due to the gender of native speakers. Currently, the term "gender" is widely used in linguistics. This article examines the gender specificity of the concept of age on the example of the Russian and Chinese languages.

Keywords:gender linguistics, language picture of the world, concept, Chinese, Russian, gender, age.