毕业论文（设计）An Analysis of Sexism in English Vocabulary1.Introduction........2.What is sexism in English...33.Origins of sexism in English vocabulary3.1 Religious culture......43.2 Traditional prejudice.....33 Social factor….63.3.1 Social status........63.3.2 The women's role in life3.4 Psychological factor............84.Phenomenon of sexism in English vocabulary4.1 Feminine language being a subsidiary...4.1.1 Unmarked or male nouns.94.l.2 Word form…4.l3 Word order.…4.l4 Address…144.1Semantic derogating of feminine words154.2.3The degradation of female words5.How to dispel sexism in English.195.1 Creating new neutral words.......205.2 Arousing awareness.....5.3 Intensifying social reform............6.Conclusion…やReferences..................231毕业论文（设计）1.IntroductionHuman being is the first valuable creatures in nature.It is human beings thatmake the world develop and exist,and it is man and woman that make the worldinteresting.Man and woman should have relied on each other,and co-operated eachother.As the development and alteration of history,there happens imbalance betweenthem.Women have been considered to be inferior to men.They have beendiscriminated in one way or another.This unequal sexist phenomenon is reflected inlanguage.Until now sexism still exists in language and women have a language oftheir own,which is different from and inferior to the language of men in the society.It is easy to see that there are some words in English clearly resisted in referenceto one sex or the other.Take a typical example,“master'”and“mistress”,“master'”isalways used to address a powerful man,but"mistress"has another pejorative meaningthat a partner for extramarital sex.So it is clear that the female words are tending tohave less favorable meaning.In North America English,there are many sex-pairedwords,such as spinster and bachelor,madam and mister,widow and widower etc.Allof them have the same meanings apparently,but there are many differences onconnotations.The noticeable point is that the semantic derogation phenomenons onlyfocus on women,and the male words keep unchanged.Otherwise,it is obvious thatthe following examples are typically used by those who claim that English is "sexist".Man”and“mankind”are used as terms to describe the human race,just as“he”isused as the unmarked third-person singular pronoun.However some words which are2毕业论文（设计）used to describe women's profession are often compounded with men,such as femalejudge,woman manager,woman engineer and so on.The following sentence can be used to illustrate this statement:a)A teacher usually calls on his students'parents after school.In this sentence,"his"as a sex-neutral pronoun,refers to a male teacher or afemale one.Besides,most people think that women's talk is always related to the home anddomestic activities,while men's is related to the outside world,political and economicactivities.No doubt that this viewpoint further moulds the social stereotypes againstthe female.2.What is sexism in EnglishSexism in language is a kind of social phenomenon,which reflects the certaintraditional social values and the national way of thinking.Long Man Dictionary ofcontemporary English(English--Chinese)(1998)defines sexism as the discriminationbased on gender,especially discrimination against women.Sexism is the belief thatone sex is not as good,clever,etc.as the other,especially when this results in unfairtreatment of woman by men.The interpretation is Oxford Advanced Learners'English-Chinese Dictionary (6th edition,2000)of sexism is the unfair treatment againstpeople (esp.women),because of their sex.Thus sexism in language is usuallyinterpreted as prejudice against women.3