History is an obvious evidence of males’ higher position in society. They were rulers and contributed to English language. Labour division in communities is one factor of discrimination in language. Women were fixed with housework and lowly jobs, so some prestigious job words are not for women. Besides the cause of society, language also represents tradition and culture. Cameron agreed that sexist language is a symbol of cultural representation of gender (Cameron, 1990). From early childhood, we are raised with customs and beliefs around us and gradually form attitudes and ways of thinking. Literature’s stereotypes like fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” give us the picture of women’s beauty, weakness, dependence and men’s strength, superior, domination.
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The most notable thing is just when every person tries to change can society change, especially in education. It can trigger social changes by creating changing in attitude and outlook of the young and the younger. Teachers prepare everything for their students and when they grow up, they again prepare best things for the younger generation. If they can orient towards language without sexism, it can move step-by-step to the level of complete elimination. Firstly, teachers set examples of great effort in avoiding sexist language. Every individual phrase or sentence in every context they use should be gender-neutrality. Then, the influence of preventing sexism can be exerted by language planning. That is developing the habit of avoiding gender bias language. We can teach history of language and gender issues by raising student’s awareness and integrate them into speech making, essay writing. Also help females realize their strengths and where they can go to delete sexual prejudices. Follow alternatives for sexist language and create new expressions that carry no discrimination, put every trial in both spoken and written forms such as theses, textbooks and curriculum in education environments. Finally, if education can provide linguistic application tools for people in every area, particularly for those who work in media industry for spreading norms of stopping gendered and discriminatory language, we can approach the ideal things we
The most notable thing is just when every person tries to change can society change, especially in education. It can trigger social changes by creating changing in attitude and outlook of the young and the younger. Teachers prepare everything for their students and when they grow up, they again prepare best things for the younger generation. If they can orient towards language without sexism, it can move step-by-step to the level of complete elimination. Firstly, teachers set examples of great effort in avoiding sexist language. Every individual phrase or sentence in every context they use should be gender-neutrality. Then, the influence of preventing sexism can be exerted by language planning. That is developing the habit of avoiding gender bias language. We can teach history of language and gender issues by raising student’s awareness and integrate them into speech making, essay writing. Also help females realize their strengths and where they can go to delete sexual prejudices. Follow alternatives for sexist language and create new expressions that carry no discrimination, put every trial in both spoken and written forms such as theses, textbooks and curriculum in education environments. Finally, if education can provide linguistic application tools for people in every area, particularly for those who work in media industry for spreading norms of stopping gendered and discriminatory language, we can approach the ideal things we