Les métaphores genrées dans les dictionnaires monolingues français en ligne

Based on a gendered approach to (meta)lexicography, as well as the cognitive approach to the study of metaphor, this research aims to identify and observe gendered metaphors – namely the conceptualisation of women and men – in a corpus of online French monolingual dictionaries (institutional and non-institutional). We will demonstrate that gender metaphors ‘stereotype’ feminine and masculine behaviours, contributing to the conservation/induction of the dominant ideology. This implies the principle that belonging to one sex or the other corresponds to two distinct ways of acting or established behavioural norms, which legitimise them as feminine or masculine identities.