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Phenomena of Sexism in the English lanusge
（作者未知） 2011/12/3
[Abstract] Language plays an important role in society. As a phenomenon of society, language reflects all the sides of human society naturally. Sexism is a phenomenon that takes a male-as-norm attitude, trivializing, insulting or rendering women invisible. As a special social phenomenon, sexism is inevitably reflected through language. The thesis analyses sexism in terms of word order，semantic derogation of women，Semantic collocation and change，metaphor in greater detail.
[Key Words] sexism, English language
[摘 要] 語言在社會中所處的地位尤為重要。作為一種社會現(xiàn)象的語言，必然會反映出人類社會的各種社會觀念。性別歧視作為這其中的一種,是指把男性視作社會規(guī)范和中心,輕視，侮辱女性或使她們顯得微不足道。而這一特定的社會現(xiàn)象必然會在語言中折射出來。論文從詞序,詞義的貶降,語義內(nèi)涵及變化,隱喻四個方面對英語中的性別歧視現(xiàn)象進行了詳細的分析。
[關(guān)鍵詞] 性別歧視；英語語言
Introduction
As the peculiar result of the development of human society, language is a kind of social phenomenon and reflects all the sides of human society naturally. Its existence and development are closely linked with the social attitudes of human beings and to a great extent are affected by their social views and values. Historically and sociologically, our society is man-oriented and man-centered. Women, regarded as a weaker gender in society, are discriminated for a long time and completely subordinated in political life, economic life and even family life in the society dominated by men. Unavoidably, this kind of phenomenon has been embodied in languages. In linguistic aspect, language is bias-based and women suffer from language sexism. Gender-differentiated language use can reflect and help perpetuate the subordinate status of women in society.
Phenomena of sexism in the English language
1.Word order
Sexism in language is reflected in word order. When men and women are presented together, usually words denoting male sex are put in front of female sex. Making females come second reflects the sexist attitude that men are superior to women. It is not hard to find male-female word order pairs in English l（未完，下一頁）
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