精品关于性别歧视英语毕业论文定.doc

ChapterⅠ Introduction From the point of cross-cultural communication, every nation has his own habits and customs, way of thinking, language psychology, behavior criterion, value concept and cultural tradition. English and Chinese culture are extremely rich, so their total cultural equivalence is rare. But on men-women relation discrimination to the female and the unequal status between men and women are the same. Thousands of years, men control the hegemony and they are always lawmakers, the narrators. In comparison, women are only forced to obey. There is a famous saying by Heidegger: “the language is the home of existence.” But this “home” is an old house, which its bricks, flowers and woods are filled with ancestors’ ghost. All the words belongs to the former dynasties’ opinions. Now, women want to protest to the discriminated fate, but they are tongue-tied. Lakoff said if women want to change their image, they should start from language, because you are what you say. It’s helpless that women have no choice but use the bricks which are engraved by men hegemony to build their fortress. Gender discrimination is an ancient historical topic. People who seek fairness and justice ever have extremely unfair concept and consciousness. This makes women are in the oppressed status in a fairly long period. This kind of residual thoughts are still existed in today language and culture. As a mirror of the society, language not only reflects social value concept, but also promotes the forming of social ideology. A close look at the phenomenon of sexism must be taken. The article discusses the different cultural phenomenon and compares English culture with Chinese culture from concept, salutation, words, history, religion and the strategy to get over the sexism. This dissertation includes the following six aspects. Chapter II Linguistic sexism widely exists in English and Chinese As we all know, every problem has its own cause and background. Gender discrimination ha