Abstract Language always reflects society。 As a social problem with a long history, sexism exists in almost every language。 Sex discrimination are shown clearly on English surname and the inpidual name。 This paper mainly studies the causes and manifestations of sexism in English names, and puts forward several solutions。 To eliminate English names of sex discrimination and realize the equality between men and women in language, it will play an important role to put forward appropriate strategies。 As language reflects society, sexism in English naming is actually a mirror of the social conditions。 Thus, the first strategy for sexism in English naming is to strive for balanced naming and addressing and the second strategy to get rid of sexism in English naming lies in the improvement of women’s social status。94671

Keywords: sexism; English; naming; women

摘要语言是社会的反映。作为历史久远的一个社会问题，性别歧视现象几乎存在于每个语言中，并在英语人名中的姓氏及个体名字上明显地表现出来。本文主要研究了英语人名中性别歧视产生的各种原因及表现形式，并提出了几条解决办法。为消除英语人名中的性别歧视现象，以求在语言中真正实现男女平等，提出合适的策略将会起着重要作用。英语人名中的性别歧视现象都是社会状况的再现。因而消除英语人名中的性别歧视的第一种策略是让两性在人名中得到平衡的体现，第二种策略在于女性社会地位的提高。

毕业论文关键词：性别歧视；英语；人名；女性

Contents

1。 Introduction1

2。 Literature Review1

2。1 The definition of sexism。。。2

2。2 The research of sexism home and abroad。。。2

3。 Sexism in English Personal Names。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。3

3。1 Family Names。。。。。。。。。3

3。2 Personal Names 。。。。。。。。4

4。 The Origins of Sexism。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。5

4。1 Historical Origin of Sexism5

4。2 Social Origin of Sexism。。。6

5。 The Strategies of Reforming Sexism。。7

5。1 Striving for balanced naming and addressing。8

5。2 Improving women’s social status-the basic solution9

6。 Conclusion。。10

Works Cited。。。11

1。 Introduction 

An English linguist once said that language loyally reflects not only a nation’s history and culture, but also its games, amusements, beliefs and biases。 Language is a mirror of  society。 All the phenomenon in the society can be found their expression in language。 There exists sex inequality in English speaking communities。 As a result, we can locate sexism here and there in English。

Language and gender are popular issues in the area of sociolinguistics, the study of linguistic behavior as determined by social cultured factors。 Sociolinguistics did not come into being until the end of the 1960s。 But actually, people had shown concern for language and gender long before sociolinguistics appeared as a discipline。In the eighteenth century, Welsh linguist Rowland Jones studied male and female language and claimed that the key to the mystery of language is the Old Testament from the Bible。 He concluded from his study that women were inferior to men, and all the inequalities in languages are absolutely just。

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, especially since the feminist movement  which originated in America and then spread all over the world in the 1960s, there have been changes in attitudes towards the language and sex issues。