海外英语(上)
海外英語(上)
해외영어(상)
Overseas English
2014年
12期
237-238
,共2页
gender discrimination%manifestations%factors%ways to avoid or eliminate
Gender discrimination in language is usually defined as discrimination based on sex, especially discrimination against women. With the rise of women’s liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and the improvement of women’s social status in recent years, gender discrimination in English attracts more and more attention. Based on previous studies, this thesis first dis?cusses the manifestations of gender discrimination in English vocabulary and address terms, then analyzes the factors of gender dis?crimination in English from social and cultural perspectives, finally puts forward some methods that are good for avoiding or elim?inating gender discrimination in English.