Does gender matter?

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to raise some relevant topics in the field of gender linguistics, to dwell on some of them and to comprehend the role of gender identity in the process of fiction translation. At the present stage of development of linguistics, it is impossible not to notice the anthropological nature of its research paradigm. Language is no longer viewed objectively as something that simply exists, but as a human world with certain inherent values. The gender approach is the next step in anthropocentric language research. Such studies highlight the features of individuals’ speech behavior, allowing considering human factor in translation more accurately.