社会语言学视角下英语语言性别歧视现象的研究

A study of sexism in English language from the perspective of Sociolinguistics

社会语言学兴起于20世纪60年代。通常,社会语言学研究语言与社会的内在关系。自社会语言学兴起之时,语言性别歧视现象便引起人们的广泛关注。本文以社会语言学理论为依据,分析研究性别歧视现象在英语词语中的反映,重点研究在构词、词义、词序、代词、诅咒语等方面的性别歧视现象,分析产生性别歧视的历史、社会、文化、心理、宗教等原因,探究性别歧视现象目前所发生的变化,提出减少词语中的性别歧视现象的建议。目的是使英语学习者对英语词语中所反映出的性别歧视有更深刻的理解和认识。

Sociolinguistics arose in 1960 s. Usually, sociolinguistics studies the internal relationship between language and society. Since the rise of sociolinguistics, sexism in language has aroused wide concern. This paper takes social linguistics theory as the basis, reflects the gender discrimination phenomenon in English words, focuses on word formation, word meaning, word order, pronouns, language and other aspects of the curse of gender discrimination, analysis of history, society, culture, psychology, religious and other causes of gender discrimination, to explore the current changes in gender discrimination and propose suggestions to reduce sexism in words. The purpose is to enable English learners to have a deeper understanding of sexism in English words.