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BaojiUniversityofArtsandSciencesinpartialfulfillmentof
therequirementforthedegreeof
BACHELOROFARTS
in
ENGLISHLANGUAGE
Baoji,Shaanxi
May,2014
Abstract:
Appellation,asanimportantpartoflanguagesystem,hasacloserelationwithgender.AndtherelationshipbetweenEnglishinterpersonalappellationandgenderdiscriminationhasbecomeanincreasinglyimportantareaofsociolinguisticsinrecentyears.Hence,thispaperintendstoemphaticallyresearchthephenomenaandthecausesofgenderdiscriminationinEnglishinterpersonalappellationandcomestoaconclusionthatgenderdiscriminationinEnglishinterpersonalappellationcannotdisappear.Thispaperfirstexplainsthedefinitionoftheappellationandgenderdiscrimination,andthengoesontodiscusshowdiscriminationagainstfemalesisrevealedinnames,socialidentityandthereference.Itthenanalyzesthecausesofgenderdiscriminationfromthehistorical,socialandreligiousperspective.Toeradicatethesexualdiscriminationinappellation,peopleneedtoeradicatetheconceptofgenderdiscriminationinthesociety,changethestatusofamale-dominatedsociety,andmakepeoplebeawareoftruesenseofequalitybetweenmalesandfemaletogivefemaleequalrespectandattention.Hence,thedetailedwaysofeliminatinggenderdiscriminationwillbediscussedinthispaper.
Keywords:
Englishinterpersonalappellation;
genderdiscrimination;
equality
杨岱玉
【内容摘要】:
人际称谓,作为语言系统的一个重要组成部分,与性别有着密切的关系。
近年来,英语人际称谓和性别歧视之间的关系在社会语言学中已经成为一个越来越重要的领域。
因此,本文试图着重分析英语人际称谓中的性别歧视的现象和原因,并得出结论,其中的性别歧视就不会消失。
本文首先从定义上阐述了人际称谓和性别歧视这两个术语,并进一步地讨论对女性的歧视是如何体现在姓名,交际,指代称谓这三个方面的,继而从历史的,社会的,宗教的观点分析了性别歧视的原因。
本文也探讨了消除性别歧视的具体方法。
想要消除英语人际称谓中的性别歧视,人们需要根除性别歧视在社会的概念,改变这个男性主导社会的地位,使人们意识到真正意义上的男性和女性之间的平等,给女性平等的尊重和关注。
【关键词】:
英语人际称谓;
性别歧视;
平等
CONTENTS
Ⅰ.Introduction………………………………………………………….…..…1
Ⅱ.GenderDiscriminationinEnglishInterpersonalAppellation…………………………………………..…….…….……......2
2.1Interpersonalappellation………………………………….…….……2
2.2Genderdiscrimination……………………………………………....…3
2.3ManifestationofgenderdiscriminationphenomenainEnglishinterpersonalappellation……………………………………………......…4
2.3.1Names…………………………………..………………….………….…4
2.3.2Socialidentity………….………………………………….……………5
2.3.3Reference…………………………….…………………….……………6
Ⅲ.TheCausesofGenderDiscriminationPhenomenoninEnglishInterpersonalAppellation..…….………………...…7
3.1Thehistoricalcondition………………………………….……………7
3.2Thesocialbackground……………………………….……………..…8
3.3Thereligiouscauses………………………………..….……………..…9
Ⅳ.EliminatingGenderDiscriminationinEnglishInterpersonalAppellation…….……………………………………10
4.1Temporarysolution……………………..…………………….………10
4.2Permanentsolution………………………………………...….………11
Ⅴ.Conclusion……………………………………….………….……...….…12
References…………………………………………………….……..…………14
Acknowledgements…………………………………………….……………15
Ⅰ.Introduction
Foralongtime,genderdiscriminationhasexistedinthesocietyofeveryculture,hasinfluencedpeople’sperspectivesandvaluesandhasleavedadeepimprintera.Historicallyandsociologically,people’ssocietyisman-orientedandman-centered.“Englishisandocentricbecausecenturieshasbeenevolvinginasocietywheremenhavebeendominant.”(Miller﹠Swift,2007:
83)Women,regardedbeenaweakergenderinsociety,arediscriminatedforalongperiodandcompletelysubordinatedinpoliticallife,economiclifeandevenfamilylifeinthesocietydominatedbymen.Withthedevelopmentofsociety,sexualdiscriminationbegantofadeslowly,butitstillexistsandembodiesinvariousfieldsofsociety.Unavoidably,thiskindofphenomenonhasalsobeenembodiedinEnglishlanguage.
Languageandgenderdiscriminationisapopularresearchtopicinlinguisticsandsociallinguistics.Linguistswhoarebothathomeandabroadhavedonealotofmeaningfulexploration,andprovethatthereisgenderdiscriminationinlanguage,andthenexpoundthecausesofgenderdiscrimination.Forexample,Lakoffputforwardtheterm“Women’sLanguage”andpublishedLanguageandWoman’sPlacein1973.Inhisbook,hepointedthatmaleisatthecenterposition,andfemale’simageisincompleteintheworldpicturereflectedbylanguage.Genderdifferenceintheirlanguageuseistheembodimentoftheunequalsocialstatusbetweenmaleandfemale.Itestablishedthelaterfundamentalkeystudiesthatexploredandconfirmedmenandwomen’sdifferencesinlanguage.Asanimportantcomponentofthevocabularysystemoflanguage,interpersonalappellationhasthesamegenderdifference.Infact,ChinesescholarstriedtoresearchtheEnglishinterpersonalappellation.SomescholarsmakeacomparisonbetweenEnglishinterpersonalappellationandChineseinterpersonalappellation,andChinesescholarsresearchandanalyzesomerelatedphenomenaandoriginsofgenderdiscriminationinChineseinterpersonalappellation.Thesescholars’researchesmakepeoplerealizethegenderdiscriminationininterpersonalappellationandunderstandsomerelatedcausesofthegenderdiscrimination.Theresearchaboutgenderdiscriminationininterpersonalappellationarenotenoughcomprehensiveandneedtomakethefurtheranalysisandresearch,especiallytheinfluencesforsociety.
However,manyscholarsresearchthegenderdiscriminationinChineseinterpersonalappellation.Hence,thispaperfocusesongenderdiscriminationinEnglishinterpersonalappellation,analyzesgenderdiscriminationphenomenainEnglishinterpersonalappellationandtherelevantcauses,andputsforwardthemeasuresofeliminatinggenderdiscrimination.Ofcourse,thispaperstressesespeciallytheanalysisofthephenomenaofthediscriminationagainstfemaleinEnglishinterpersonalappellation,whichreformstopromotetheevolutionofthelanguagetowardstherealizationofequalitybetweenmenandwomen.
Ⅱ.GenderDiscriminationinEnglishInterpersonalAppellation
Asasocialproblemwithalonghistory,genderdiscriminationexistsinanylanguage,reflectingthedependenceanddiscriminationfromwhichwomensufferinasocietydominatedbymen.Inthefollowing,interpersonalappellation,genderdiscriminationanddiscriminationphenomenoninEnglishinterpersonalappellationwillbeillustrated.
2.1Interpersonalappellation
Interpersonalappellationisawordorwordsbywhichsomeoneiscalledandclassifiedordistinguishedfromothers.Interpersonalappellationisthecallofidentityorthenameofonepartytoanotherincertainlanguageenvironment,whichusedtobecalledthenameoffamilyrelationshipornot.“Interpersonalappellationisanindispensablepartofthecompletesemanticsystem,whichhaswidelyappliedinsociallife.”(Su,2010:
29)Interpersonalappellationthatisthesalutationtoothersisnotonlyalanguagephenomenon,butalsosocialandculturalphenomenon.Inanylanguage,interpersonalappellationplaysanessentialroleinsocialetiquette.Inreality,interpersonalappellationistheperson’sdeixisthatspeakerusedtocallothersinlanguagecommunication.Interpersonalappellationnotonlyexpressesrespect,intimacy,contemptandotherfeelingsofthespeakertothelistener,butalsoplaysarolethatestablishakindofspecificsocialrelationsbetweenthem.Atthesametime,itwouldreflectparticularculturallevelandthetraditionalconsumerhabits,historicalbackgroundandvariousculturalfactors.Inallethnicgroupsindailycommunication,appellationplaysanimportantrole,whichnotonlyhasthefunctionofpersonaldeixis,butalsohasthefunctionofpoliteness.Forthedifferentvaluesandculturalbackgroundbetweenthevariousnationalities,thenumberofwordsandreferentialscopeisdifferentindifferentnationalities
2.2Genderdiscrimination
Likeracialdiscriminationandagediscrimination,genderdiscriminationisalsoregardedasakindofideology,whichisakindofideologyofmaintainingtheinequalitybetweenmaleandfemale.“Genderdiscriminationismainlytoadvocatetherationalityofthemensuperiortowomenthroughthestressandexaggerationofthenaturalandphysiologicaldifferences.”(Wang,2007:
53)Genderdiscriminationisacommonphenomenonofhumansociety,anditusuallyreferstodiscriminationofmenagainstwomen,whichistheprejudiceagainstfemaleandthereflectionofunequalsocialstatusbetweenmaleandfemale.“Womenhavelongbeenregardedastheweaker/secondsexandthemen'
sfoilandaccessories.”(Chen,2012:
45)Sotospeak,genderdiscriminationistheunequaltreatmentofmembersofonegendertothemembersofanothergender,especiallytheunequaltreatmentofmentowomen.
Genderdiscriminationagainstfemalemainlymanifestsintheemployment,familiallife,work,socialstatusandthelanguage.However,inthelanguage,genderdiscriminationembodiesinEnglishwordformation,wordorder,semanticchanges,interpersonalappellationandsoon.InEnglishwordformation,therearemanyprofessionalwordsmadeupofasuffix“-man”,suchas,spokesman,congressman,freshman,sportsman,chairmanetc.,whichobviouslyignoredtheexistenceofthefemale.Inwordorder,Englishwordsoftenabidebytheprinciples:
Masculinityinformer,femininityinlatter.However,LadiesandGentlemenisanexception.Mr.Mrs.Smith;
husbandandwife;
KingandQueen;
fatherandmother;
brotherandsistersarethebestexamples.Insemanticchanges,somefemalewords’meaningsarecommendatory,butlaterslowlyturnintoderogatoryterm.Forexample,InBritain,