This article describes how gender stereotypes influence translation practices and meaning transformation in cross-cultural communication. The study highlights that translation is not a neutral linguistic process but a culturally and ideologically loaded activity in which translators often reproduce, reinforce, or resist gender bias. Gender stereotypes—socially constructed notions of masculinity and femininity—shape lexical choices, grammatical structures, and even character portrayal across languages. Through theoretical analysis and examples from literary and audiovisual translation, this paper examines how gendered discourse influences perception and interpretation.

Gender stereotypes, translation studies, feminist linguistics, discourse analysis

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