On Sex Discrimination in English Proverbs and Their Translation 英语毕业论文

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

2、nceptgreatly.Itaimstoexposethesexdiscriminationinlanguage,enhancepeople’sawarenessofitandhaveabetterunderstandingoftherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsociety.ItalsoputsforwardsometranslationmethodsforEnglishproverbswithsexdiscrimination,suchasliteraltranslation,fr

3、eetranslation,synonymousreplacementandcombinationofliteralandfreetranslation.　　Keywords:sexdiscrimination；Englishproverbs;translation　　　　1.Introduction　　Languageislikeamirrorthroughwhichonecanseesocialviewsandattitudesofhumanbeings;allkindsofsocialphenomena(incl

4、udingsexdiscrimination)areboundtobereflectedinlanguage.Language,toagreatextent,reflectssuchsocialphenomena:femalesaredefamed,belittled,andlaidinthepositionofbeingsubordinatetomales.Amajorissueinsociolinguisticstudieshasbeentherelationshipbetweengenderandlanguage

5、.Since1960s,therisingofthefeministmovementhasfurtherpromotedtheresearchofgenderlanguage.　　Asthepeculiarresultofthedevelopmentofthehumansociety,languagereflectsthesocietynaturally.Languageislikeamirrorthroughwhichcanseesocialviewsandattitudesofhumanbeings.Accordi

6、ngtoAlleenPaceNilsem(2007),languageandsocietyareasinterviewedasachickenandanegg.Languageuseistheevidenceofthevaluesandbeliefsofthatsociety.Allkindsofunequalphenomenainthesocietyincludingsexdiscriminationareboundtobereflectedinlanguage.　　Sociolinguisticsisthescie

7、ncewhichstudiestherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsociety,betweentheuseoflanguageandsocialstructuresinwhichtheusersoflanguagelive.Itisgenerallyrecognizedthatsociolinguisticsasanindependentdisciplinearoseinthemid-1960.Thestudyoflanguageinrelationtogenderhasbeenhigh

8、lightedasahotissueinsociolinguistics.Thelinguistswhoshowinterestinthisfieldaretraditionallydividedintotwogroups.Onegrouplaytheiremphasisonthespeechdifferencesbetweenw