On Sexism in English from the Perspective of Sociolinguistic浅析社会语言学视角下英语中的性别歧视开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义

withthe further development and research of sociolinguistics, the relationshipbetween language and gender has gradually become a hot topic of discussion, andthe phenomenon of sexism in language has therefore become an extremelyimportant research topic in sociolinguistics.

languageis a special social phenomenon, which can reflect the structure and developmentof the society. it is the embodiment of a kind of culture and occupies animportant position in the society. sexism is widespread in english, and thereare many such examples in english words and proverbs. language is a mirror ofthe real society, which can truly reflect social customs and values. it is ofgreat significance and value to study the phenomenon of sexism in english wordsand proverbs and analyze the causes of this phenomenon.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

basedon sapir-whorf hypothesis, this paper tries to find out the causes of sexism byanalyzing the sexism in english words and proverbs, so as to raise people''sawareness of sexism expression. and this paper also puts forward some measuresto alleviate the phenomenon of sexism and promote the harmonious development ofboth sexes in the society. the outlineis as follows:

1. introduction

1.1 importance and purpose of the research

3. 国内外研究现状

xu, x holds the view that the forming of sexism inenglish language is closely connected with history, culture, education andcustom, etc. (xu, x 2008, p.101). through lots of examples, the passageexhibits the phenomenon of sexism in english and its reason, its main display andits rebuilding, and explains the importance of eliminating it in the essay.piercey, m structures the essay around three themes: english as a part ofculture, the discrimination in english, and the marginalization of women inliterature. the author believes that we should start by using nonsexistlanguage, teaching nonsexist literature, and studying her story to eliminatethe idea that women are inferior to men (piercey, m,2000).

they are all involved in the study of cultural sexism.some scholars have also studied the phenomenon of sexism reflected in thelexical level of language.

guo xinyu, liu yang and wang baiju talk about sexismin english from the perspectives of word-formation, connotation, collocativemeaning, appellation and idioms. they believe that we can get a betterunderstanding of the relationship between language and the objective world fromthe parts mentioned above (guo xinyu, liu yang amp; wang baiju, 2019). yiguifang attempts to probe into sexism phenomena in the english language in termsof lexicon, lexical meaning as well as proverbs, and then focuses on thediscussion of strategies for its avoidance so as to advocate nonsexist languagein place of sexist language. the author thinks that the use of sexist languagedoes not mean that it is the language that is sexist but rather the socialattitude connoted in the language that is sexist (yigui fang 2018, p.322).

4. 计划与进度安排

1.2022年12月11日前完成开题工作

2.2022年3月19日前完成初稿和中期检查工作

3.2022年5月14日前完成论文修改、重复率检查、定稿、外文文献翻译工作

5. 参考文献

guoxinyu,liu yang amp; wang baiju.(2019).a probe of sexism in english wordmeaning.(eds.)第八届东北亚语言文学与翻译国际学术论坛论文集(pp.223-227).the americanscholars press, inc.

piercey,m. (2000). sexism in the english language. tesl canada journal, 17(2), 110–115.

xu,x. (2008). the sexism in english and its rebuilding. international educationstudies, 1(4), 101–103.