Kontextová senzitívnosť pomenovania osôb mužského rodu

The author pays attention to lexical meaning of contextual sensitive words. The meaning can vary in various texts. Although the meaning is diverse, people understand it in communication due to a broader context, for example, stereotypes existing in a society. The paper deals with the words chlap, muž and their common adjective collocations. It also includes the social part of lexical meaning of the adjective dobrý used together with the noun chlap. The study of the Slovak national corpora confirms that the social part of the meaning mirrors gender system of Slovak society.