The sexism similarities in English and Chinese 语言学论文

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1、ThesexismsimilaritiesinEnglishandChineseAbstractLanguageistheformsofsocialcultureandthecarrierofhuman’scivilization.Itcanreflectthesocialwaysofthinkingandvalues.Thesexismlanguagesspecificallyreflectoftheinequalitiestowardsmenandwomeninthesociety.Beingtheproductionofhumanbeings’civiliza

2、tions,EnglishandChinesesharemanysimilaritiesattheaspect.Thetwolanguagesshowtheirownfeatureswhenwordsareinventedandused.Humanbeings’civilizationmainlywasdevelopedinthepaternalsocietybutnotthematernalsociety,solanguagesisinfluenceddeeplybythissocialelement.Thesexismsimilaritiesinthetwola

3、nguageswillbeillustratedinthreeways:1theuseofthethirdpersonalpronounforwomen;2theconstructionofwords;3theordertodescribeamanandawomanatthesametime.Keywords:sexism;Chinese;EnglishIntroductionInthe21stcentury,women’ssocialstatushasgraduallybeenimprovedatahigherlevel,butwomenreallysuffere

4、dalotfromthesexisminmanyaspectsinthefeudalsocietybothintheeasterncountriesandinwesterncountries.HereIwilltalkaboutsomesimilaritiesofthetwolanguagesinsexism.Manyresearcheshavestudiedintheconnectionbetweenthetwolanguages.1theoriginofthethirdpersonalpronouns:“she”and“她”indicatingsexismAst

5、heoppressedinancient,womeninchinaorwesterncountriesweretreatedinaninhumanway.1.1Theoriginof“she”InEnglish,theword”she”appearedinthehistorystagearound13thcentury.Itmeansthefemales’thirdpersonalpronounisincludedintheword“he”before13thcentury.(杨春p196)Andevennowadays,“he”containsthemeaning

6、ofmanandwoman,while“she”onlystandsforawoman.Wecanlearnthatinthelonghumanhistory4women’ssocialstatuswascoveredbymen’s.1.2theoriginof“她”AsaChinese,weareveryfamiliarwiththecharacter“她”.It’sapronountostandforasingularwomaninChinese.Thereisanopposingcharacter“他”toindicateasingularmaninChine

7、se.Itjustlikestherelationbetween“he”and“she”inEnglish.Butdoyouknowwhendidthischaracterwasinvented?Before1918,therewasnothecharacter“她”inChinesevocabulary.Atthattime,weonlyusedthecharacter“他”toexpressthethirdpersonalpronouns.Whenwemadecontactwithwesterns,wefoundtherewasnoacorrespondin