On avoiding sexism language in English 英语专业毕业论文

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1、OnavoidingsexismlanguageinEnglishAbstractItisobviousthatthelowsocialstatusofwomeniscausedbysexisminEnglish.Thephenomenonhasbeenrealizedandgraduallyimprovedrecently.Sexismlanguageisanitemoflanguagewhichconstitutesamale-as-normviewofsocietybytrivializing,insultingorr

2、enderingwomeninvisible.Itcanalsobeenseenaslanguagewhichmakesanunnecessaryandirrelevantreferencetoaperson'ssexorgender.SexismlanguageinEnglishcanbeclassifiedintotwocategories:ambiguityofreferentandstereotyping.Thepaperfocusesonthisprobleminordertoappealforapopularco

3、nsciousnessthatifwewanttochangethesocialattitudetowomen,wehavetochangethewayinusingEnglish.Keywords:Sexismlanguage,non-sexismlanguage,ambiguityofreferent,stereotyping18摘要在英语中妇女社会地位的低下很明显是由性别歧视所造成的。这种现象已经被认知，但最近有了好转。性别歧视性语言把男性视作社会规范和中心，不恰当地指出一个人的性别，轻视侮辱女性使她们显得微不足道。英

4、语中的性别歧视语言大致可分为两种情况：所指模糊和传统思维。这篇论文就这种情况引出了一个很流行的话题，我们要想改变对妇女的社会态度，那我们就要改变在使用英语时的一些方法。关键词：性别歧视性语言；无性别歧视性语言；所指模糊；传统思维18ContentsAbstract…………………………………………………………i摘要………………………………………………………………iiContents…………………………………………………………iiiIntroduction……………………………………………………11.Sexismlanguage

5、………………………………………22.Howtoavoidsexistlanguage……………………………42.1Aviodusingthepronoun“his”“he”or“him”………2.2Avoidusing“man”:“men”and“mankind”………..82.3Avoidusingprofessionalsexistlanguage………………112.4Avoidinterviewingacertainwomanthroughherhusband…122.5Avoidusingtheformofaddre

6、ssofaddressoflookingdownuponwomen…………………………………………………13Conclusion………………………………………………………14Bibliography………………………………………………………1418IntroductionSexismlanguagereferstoprejudiceordiscriminationbasedonsex,especially,discriminationagainstwomenandsexismlanguageisone,whichshowst

7、heprejudiceordiscriminationsagainstwomenorthefalseassumptionthatmenaresuperiortowomeninusingthelanguage.Manylanguagesaremalecentered,biasedinfavorofmen,derogatorytowardswomen.InEnglish,apersonofunknownsexisreferredtoas"she"or"her".Apersonwhopresidesameetingisthe"ch

8、airman",evenifsheisawomen.Thewholehumanracecanbereferredtoas"man"ratherthanwoman.Thehistoryofwomankind.Thetotalsuppleofpersonsavailableandservice