英语语言中的性别歧视及其文化内涵

The Sex Discrimination and Its Culture Connotations in English

性别歧视是社会一类性别成员对另一类性别成员所持有的缺乏充分事实依据的偏见。而语言作为思想的外衣及人类最主要的交际工具,直接反映出语言使用者的社会价值观、民族的文化积淀和思维方式。英语语言中有大量的性别歧视语。文章通过英语语言在称谓、构词、涵义等方面的性别歧视现象,揭示其文化内涵。

Sex discrimination is a kind of prejudice imposed on one gender by the other. As the most important means of communication, language reflects in a direct way the user＇s social value, culture background, and way of thinking. There exists quite a lot of sexism phenomena in English. The paper will focus on the different sexism phenomena in English to reveal its culture connotations.