Gender Discrimination in English Language
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DOI: 10.25236/iwacle.2018.021
Corresponding Author
Xin Chen
Abstract
Language is a carrier of national culture and crystallization, which not only records the nation's material life and spiritual life of appearance, but also accumulates rich content of traditional culture connotation, language always reflects the society, so language gender discrimination is an exact reproduction of social gender discrimination. This paper applied linguistics marked theory, through the numerous examples from the composition of the English vocabulary, word meaning, word category, word order, semantic, English title, proverb seven perspectives to analyze the gender discrimination in English.
Keywords
English Language, Gender Discrimination, Marked Theory