语言中的性别因素(英文)

The Sex Factors in Language

有机生物基本的生理性别差异通过诸多形式在语言中有所体现.首先,语言本身包含一些阳性名词,代词和阴性名词.代词以示人类男女之别和动、植物的雌雄;其次,由于心理、社会或文化方面的原因,男女在使用语言时存在着发音、音调、词汇、语法、话题等方面的差异;此外,鉴于男优女劣的偏见,某些语言中的部分词汇或用法隐含着性别歧视.上述即是语言中常见的性别因素.

As a fundamental fact of animate beings, physiological sex differences is reflected in language in many ways. Firstly, language itself sometimes contains masculine and feminine forms of nouns or pronouns so as to show male and female differences of human beings, animals or plants; Secondly, men and women use language differently in pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary, grammar, topics etc. because of psychological, social or cultural reasons; Furthermore, some words or usages in certain languages imply sexism because of the view that women are inferior to men. Such are the common sex factors in language.