The Importance Of Sexism In Language

Language is used by human being for interact with each other. Language is a tool for express an idea, opinion, and feeling to other people. In its development, language can’t be separated from other factors out the language, especially the speaker’s background. Many kinds of speaker’s background makes variation of language. Other factors out the language which influences the variation of language such as social class, sex, age, culture, ethnicity, etc.
One aspect that is interesting to discuss is language variation in which caused by sex. In social life, sex is becoming a differentiation in many things, one of them is language. Sex can influence the language and being an important factor for counting language variation. Basically, man and woman …show more content…
The studies have also reported that an indirect sexism (expressing sexism in a way that is not directly obvious and in a way that enables a speaker to deny a responsibility to the use) continues. According Mills and Mullany (2011) assert that feminist discriminatory language are such conventionalized thinking within society that suppressing the overt form is not a victory over the practice as the new forms will emerge. Mills gives the new form of indirect sexism as humor and irony; whereby women are stereotyped through expressions or fictions; which actors cannot be held responsible for: as long as they belong to the genre of humor …show more content…
They conducted a descriptive qualitative research in investigating sex stereotypes in sport and exercise. They concluded that females and males may both be susceptible to stereotypes effects, whether they have internalized them or not, suggesting how pervasive these effects may be. The further research is needed to reveal whether some routes of stereotype influence may be more influential than others, in order to identify appropriate strategies that could alleviate