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摘 要语言是人类在社会生活交流中不可或缺的一部分。不同的种族使用不同的语言。但是不管人类使用哪种语言，语言始终是社会的镜子，它能很自然地反映人类社会生活的各个方面，因此性别歧视是不可避免的社会现象。这篇论文旨在研究英汉语言中所存在的性别歧视现象，以书籍、期刊和网上收集的资料为基础,运用举例子等方法进行研究。因此,研究表明性别歧视普遍存在在英汉语言中,应采取一些必要的方法来减少或消除这一现象。这篇论文的研究目的是试图使人们意识到性别歧视的重要性并且达到努力减少这种现象的目的。35650
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毕业论文关键词：性别歧视；现象的严肃性; 英语；汉语
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction of Gender Discrimination 1
II. The Phenomena of Gender Discrimination 2
2.1 Sexism in Vocabulary 3
2.2 Sexism in Expressions 5
2.3 Sexism in Proverbs and Quotes 6
III. The Common Features Lie in both English and Chinese 7
3.1 The Similarity between the Word and Word Formation 7
3.2 Some Words Used to Call Women have Developed in the Direction of Degradation 8
3.3 The Similarity of the Title of Married Women 9
IV. The Methods to Alleviate the Gender Discrimination in Language 10
4.1 Gender Discrimination Words into Nonsexist Words 10
4.2 Eliminate the Wide Application of “Man” and “He” 10
4.3 Make New Words 11
4.4 Avoid Using the Proverbs that Underestimate Female 11
V. Conclusion 12
Bibliography 14
Acknowledgements 15
Abstract Language is a necessary part for human beings to communicate in society. Different languages are used by different races. But no matter what kind of languages they used, languages are mirrors of the society, which reflect every side of human society naturally. Inevitably, gender discrimination is a social phenomenon. The writer of this paper is devoted to the detailed study of gender discrimination in both the English and Chinese language. Based on the analysis of books, journals and online date collection, the writer uses the method like taking examples for research. Accordingly, it reveals that gender discrimination is widespread in English and Chinese, some necessary methods should be taken to reduce or eliminate this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to help people to realize the severity of gender discrimination and thus reduce sexism in English and Chinese.
Key words: gender discrimination; the serious of phenomena; English; Chinese；
An Analysis of Gender Discrimination Phenomena in English and Chinese
I. Introduction of Gender Discrimination
As an English learner, I come to realize that it is not a rare phenomenon that gender discrimination occurs in the English and Chinese language expression. Throughout human history, the male is in social dominance in a long period of time. Due to differences in physical and psychological aspects, women are generally considered as accessories to the male. This phenomenon not only exists in China, but also in many other countries. This was reflected in the Holy Bible. The Bible says the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my fleshes; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.” (2:20) So is implicitly confirm women subservient to men. Through history, we can easily find that gender discrimination not only exists in religion and has penetrated in to all aspects of society, but also as a mirror of society has reflected this phenomenon of social gender discrimination. A lot of words, phrases and sentences in language reflect the inequality between man and women. Fortunately, with the rise of the feminist movement in the 20th century, Social status of women has been gradually improved, the attention of people to the problem of equality between men and women also have a significant rise. There is no denying that, however, gender discrimination still exists in our social life, and will not go away for quite a long time. In this paper, the phenomenon of gender discrimination in English and Chinese, the causes and the method of eliminating gender discrimination are discussed.