浅析英语中的性别歧视现象.docVIP

【标题】浅析英语中的性别歧视现象 【作者】刘 相 登 【关键词】?性别歧视；英语语言；词汇中性化 【指导老师】曾 文 武 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionAs the result of the development of human society, language is a kind of social phenomenon and reflects all the sides of human society naturally. Its existence and development are closely linked with the social attitudes of human being, and to a great extent, are affected by their social views and values. Historically and sociologically, our society is man-oriented and man-centered. Women, regarded as a weaker gender in society, are discriminated for a long time and completely subordinated in political and economic life and even family life in the man-dominated society. Unavoidably, this kind of phenomenon has been embodied in languages. In linguistic aspect, language is bias-based and women suffer from language sexism. Gender-differentiated language usage can reflect and help perpetuate the subordinate status of women in society.II. Phenomena of sexism in the English languageSexism, broadly speaking, refers to a gender bias. Such a bias mainly refers to the discrimination against women, and the discrimination against women, including linguistic discrimination, exists all over the world and in all aspects of social life.A. Sexism in English Vocabulary1. Word OrderSexism in language is reflected by word order. When men and women presented together, usually words denoting male are put in front of female. Making females come second reflects the sexist attitude that men are superior to women. It is not hard to find male-female word order pairs in English literature, newspaper, magazines as well as in speech, such as male and female, husband and wife, father and mother, boys and girls, his and hers, son and daughter, brother and sister, host and hostess, king and queen, Adam and Eve and so on. In books or on radio, even in daily dialogues, we can often read and hear such words:?(1) Good morning, boys and girls!(2) They would have allowed males and females to go to sc