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1、OnSexDiscriminationinEnglishProverbsandTheirTranslation　　Abstract.Proverbs,asessenceandimportantpartoflanguageandcarrierofculture,reflectpeople’sperspectivesandsystemsofsociety.Thediscriminationagainstwomeninsocietyisreflectedinproverbs,whichinfluencethesocialconceptgreatl

2、y.Itaimstoexposethesexdiscriminationinlanguage,enhancepeople’sawarenessofitandhaveabetterunderstandingoftherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsociety.ItalsoputsforwardsometranslationmethodsforEnglishproverbswithsexdiscrimination,suchasliteraltranslation,freetranslation,synonymo

3、usreplacementandcombinationofliteralandfreetranslation.　　Keywords:sexdiscrimination；Englishproverbs;translation　　　　1.Introduction　　Languageislikeamirrorthroughwhichonecanseesocialviewsandattitudesofhumanbeings;allkindsofsocialphenomena(includingsexdiscrimination)areboundto

4、bereflectedinlanguage.Language,toagreatextent,reflectssuchsocialphenomena:femalesaredefamed,belittled,andlaidinthepositionofbeingsubordinatetomales.Amajorissueinsociolinguisticstudieshasbeentherelationshipbetweengenderandlanguage.Since1960s,therisingofthefeministmovementha

5、sfurtherpromotedtheresearchofgenderlanguage.　　Asthepeculiarresultofthedevelopmentofthehumansociety,languagereflectsthesocietynaturally.Languageislikeamirrorthroughwhichcanseesocialviewsandattitudesofhumanbeings.AccordingtoAlleenPaceNilsem(2007),languageandsocietyareasinter

6、viewedasachickenandanegg.Languageuseistheevidenceofthevaluesandbeliefsofthatsociety.Allkindsofunequalphenomenainthesocietyincludingsexdiscriminationareboundtobereflectedinlanguage.　　Sociolinguisticsisthesciencewhichstudiestherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsociety,betweenthe

7、useoflanguageandsocialstructuresinwhichtheusersoflanguagelive.Itisgenerallyrecognizedthatsociolinguisticsasanindependentdisciplinearoseinthemid-1960.Thestudyoflanguageinrelationtogenderhasbeenhighlightedasahotissueinsociolinguistics.Thelinguistswhoshowinterestinthisfieldar

8、etraditionallydividedintotwogroups.Onegrouplaytheiremphasisonthespeechdifferencesbetweenw