AnAnalysisofSexisminEnglishVocabulary

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