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1、TheSexismPhenomenoninEnglishandChineseLanguageAbstract:InthelonghistoryoflanguagedevelopmentofEnglishandChinese,therehaveoccurredcertainlanguagephenomenonsespeciallyembodiedinvocabulary,expression,proverbs,etc.whicharediscriminatedagainstwomen–SexistLanguage.Thepaperintendstomakeatenta
2、tivediscussiononthephenomenonofSexistLanguageinbothEnglishandChinesebyintroducingitscausesandcertainfeatures.Keywords:EnglishandChinese;sexism;phenomena;causesandfeatures.摘要:在汉语和英语的发展,演变的历史进程中,出现了较多对女性性别歧视的现象,这些现象在字词,表达和一些俗语谚语中表现尤为突出。本文旨在归纳和总结这些语言性别歧视现象,并简要探讨现象背后的原因及其特征。关键字:汉语,英语,性别歧视,
3、原因,特征I.IntroductionLanguage,astheimportanttoolofhumancommunicationandthoughtsinterflow,reflectstheminds,attitudesandculturalbackgroundsofthelanguage-creatoranduser.Inthelateperiodof18thCentury,academiciansbegantostudyanddiscusstheformationoflanguage.Languageisformedincourseoftheproduct
4、ionpowerandsocialactivityofhumanbeings,offeringservicetothepublic,whichwasthereasonwhywesaylanguageisthereflectionoftheactualconditionofthewholesocietyandasaresult,waslimitedbyhuman’slivingstyle,thinkingforms,mannerandbehavior,moralityvalue,politicvalueandculturalbackgrounds.Reference王
5、振亚.语言与文化.北京:高等教育出版社,2001Wehavetoconfessthatlanguage,asatoolofsocialrelationship,islimitedbythespaceandtime.Inordertoimprovethecommunication,humanbeingcreatedsymbolsystem--wordsandcharacters,whichisabletorecordandtransferthoughts,conceptsandinformationinthevisualform.Thecreationofwordsa
6、ndcharactersisalsotightlyrelatedtohumanthoughts.Inhumansociety,themalestandsintheleadingstatus.Themaleisregardedmuchstrongerandmorepowerfulthanthefemale.Thephysicaldifferencesbetweenmaleandfemaledecidethedifferenceoftheirdifferentrolesinthesociety.Theleadingstatusofmaleandtheaffiliatio
7、nstatusoffemaleleadtothesexismphenomenoninlanguage.InbothEnglishandChinese,themasculinewordisusuallyinclusiveandmaintainsgenerality,whilefemininewordstendtobeexclusive.王振亚.语言与文化.北京:高等教育出版社,2001Forinstance,theword“man”canbereferredastothewholehumanbeing,while,theword“woman”can’t;insho