Abstract
The purpose of this research is to identify adjectives which collocate exclusively or predominantly with the lexemes muž 'man' and žena 'woman' in Czech. The study will be based on the SYN2015 representative corpus of contemporary written Czech, namely its newspapers and magazines section.
The main goal is to compare both sets of male and female collocates and 1) to find out whether journalistic texts reflect in collocations the stereotypes of men and women and 2) to validate the hypothesis that certain adjectives are used only with one of the lexemes. First, the adjectival collocates will be sorted into three groups to identify words that collocate exclusively (100 %), almost exclusively (more than 90 %) and predominantly (more than 70 %) with the lexeme muž/žena.
This will generate a list of adjectives that are typically used with one of the sexes. The collocates will then be classified into several semantic groups describing appearance, character, possessions etc. in order to identify possible semantic differences in collocation profiles of the lexemes muž and žena, including positive or negative connotations.
The study will also focus on a frequency distribution of the examined collocations in particular genres of newspapers and magazines in the SYN2015 corpus and in the semantic groups, which could indicate a connection of certain meanings with concrete text genres. It could also show whether the collocations reflect a stereotypical view of men and women.
In the final part of the paper, the results will be summarized and interpreted, aiming particularly at the possible stereotypical view of men and women and its development as reflected in the journalistic texts. A group of adjectival collocates that can combine with both investigated lexemes will also be commented upon to show that there is a neutral overlap of adjectives that have no female or male connotation and could be use with both sexes.