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1、TheSexisminEnglishLanguage英语中的性别歧视AbstractSexisminEnglishlanguagehaslaunchedalongwiththevigorousdevelopmentofwomen’sliberationmovementsincetheendof1960s.Asamirrorreflectingthesociety,languageimagesthesocialviewsandvalues.Sexisminsocietyisthusinevitablyr
2、eflectedintheuseoflanguage.ThepaperbasedontheanalysisofsexdiscriminationinEnglishexploresthatitisbynomeansanextinctionofsexistlanguagesolongasthesexisminsocietyexists.Thecausesofsexisminthisthesisaretheinequalitybetweenmaleandfemale.Inancienttime,thetho
3、ughtsthatmaleshostfemalesandthetreatmentofwomenasinferiorstomenareinvogue.Menarealwaysatsuperiorpositionstowomeninthesocialeconomy,inthepolitics,aswellasinthepeople’straditionalideas,sotheideaofsexdiscriminationhasreflectedinthelanguage.Thethesissummari
4、zesthephenomenaofsexisminEnglishbyusinguniversalevidence,andtheyareshownanddiscussedinfouraspects:Englishproverbs,Englishexpressions,EnglishvocabularyandthemeaningsofEnglishwords.Lastly,thethesisintroducestwofeasiblestrategiestoerasesexisminEnglishlangu
5、age,andtheyare:languagereformandsocialreform.Themostimportantoneistoerasethesexistconceptionsandimprovewomen’sstatus,respectandsupportthem.Thelanguagetransformationcanberealisticonthebasisofthesocialreform.KeyWords:Sexism;femalewords;masculinewords;stra
6、tegies 摘 要自20世纪60年代起,语言性别歧视已随着女性解放运动的展开而得到蓬勃发展。语言是社会现实的一种反映,因此由于历史发展、文化、社会价值及男女两性之间在生理等方面的差异而引起的性别歧视,尤其是社会对女性的性别歧视一览无余的体现在语言上,英语语言中也存在性别歧视。本篇论文阐述了性别歧视产生的原因是男女地位的不平等,在人类早期,男尊女卑的思想盛行,男子在社会经济、政治、文化领域以及人们的传统观念中,总是处于比女性优越的地位,人们在观念上形成的对妇女特有的歧视观念慢慢形成并反映在语言中。本文
7、分析了性别歧视在英语中的四个方面的表现:在谚语中;在词汇中;在词语中和在词义中,通过大量的举例和分类来系统阐述。最后着重讨论了消除性别歧视语所应采取的一些策略,从语言策略和社会策略两方面入手,要消除性别歧视,关键在于根除社会上存在的性别歧视观念,进一步提高妇女的社会地位,语言的变革只能在社会变革的基础上才能实现。关键词:性别歧视;女性词;男性词;策略IntroductionLanguageisasocialphenomenon,andithasacloserelationshipwiththesoci
8、allife,thelanguageisusedinaspecificsocialgroupanditisnotonlythecarrieroftheideologicalcontent,butamirrorofsociallife,itrevealspeople’straditionalthoughtsthatsexdiscriminationagainstwomeninthesociety.Fromthedevelopmentandchangesof