scholarly journals On the Gender Discrimination in English

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Tian Lan ◽  
Liu Jingxia
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
People’S Daily

Language, as a tool for people’s daily communication, has no gender bias itself. With the development of society, the language has changed correspondingly. Language serve as the mirror of society, inevitably reflecting people’s minds or ideology as well as the culture and social conditions of a society. While in English, as the mother tongue of many western countries, amounts of gender discrimination expressions are embodied. To some extent, the gender bias toward females serves as the embodiment that females are considerably insignificant and share a low social status. In this paper, the author will analyse the phenomenon of gender discrimination in English language, and find the reason behind it to make people realize the importance of eliminating this phenomenon. If people keep using sexism language unconsciously, it will become the hindrance of the social harmony.

scholarly journals Gender Discrimination Underlying in Higher Education in Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Liangfei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Normal Form ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Times

Since ancient times, sexism has existed in all aspects of people's lives. Women have always been at the bottom of society. Even upper-class women also have to abide by the principle of " obeying father at home, obeying husband after getting married, and obeying son after the husband died" as the social ethics. After the founding of new China, the idea that "women hold up half the sky" gradually spread. On the whole, the social status of Chinese women has been greatly improved. But sexism is still rife. Especially in colleges and universities, the underlying sexism on campus, in its "normal" form, is ignored. In view of this phenomenon, the author conducts in-depth exploration in the hope of attracting people's attention.

scholarly journals LEXICAL GAPS IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LEGAL TERMINOLOGY

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-225
Author(s):  
R. E. Shkilev
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
English Language ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Language

The article deals with the phenomenon of gaps in legal terminology of the English language from the point of view of its Russian translation. The author analyzes the approaches to understanding lexical gaps. Examples of terminological gaps have been selected from English-English explanatory dictionaries. The selected terminological units have no equivalents in legal terminology of the Russian language. The study reveals the role of the commentary in rendering the meaning of terminological gaps. While considering the factors determining the existence of gaps, the author pays attention to both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The research revealed a number of lexical gaps among the terms of international law. English-Russian termninological dictionaries in some cases contain the explanations of notional gaps. The use of transliteration is a signal of notional gap. The conclusion is made about the connection between the perception of gaps and the structures of one’s mother tongue. The social and historical character of the gaps under study has been proved to be well-grounded. The author emphasizes the importance of detailed definitions for adequate rendering of the gaps.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Speech Levels in Kelanjuh Lauq Central Lombok and Kelayu East Lombok

2018 ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Husnawati Husnawati
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
The Social ◽  
Speech Situation ◽  
Religious Understanding

Politeness which is reflected in behavior and speech has different standards in every place as a form of cultural treasures. This is motivated by various things, not only social stratification in society and nobility, but also age, education, familiarity, and speech situation. The community members of Kelanjuh Lauq Central Lombok use Sasak "subtle" language not only to show their social status and nobility, but also to maintain Sasak subtle language and to acquire language for children. In contrast, in Kelayu East Lombok, the standard of decency in speech does not reflect one's nobility, but rather the social status and the level of religious understanding. The use of subtle language is important that everyone can put him or herself correctly and proportionally to maintain social harmony in a community.

scholarly journals Hol van Abbázia?

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bölcskei ◽  
Gábor Gercsák ◽  
Gábor Miskey
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
Hungarian Language ◽  
Everyday Communication

Where is Abbázia? Results of a questionnaire survey on the use of Hungarian exonyms The paper attempts to examine the current use of exonyms in the Hungarian language based on a questionnaire survey. The survey tested the knowledge of exonyms indicating places (i) in the area of the historical Hungary, (ii) in parts of Central Europe and (iii) in areas beyond our region; the tendencies in exonym use according to communicative situations (cf. the use of place names on maps, in official documents, in everyday communication, in the mother tongue and in an English language environment); and the social attitudes towards exonyms. Although the survey does not work with representative data, the results are expressive. The survey suggests that the use of exo-nyms in present-day Hungary is affected by ideological as well as linguistic factors. Most of the respondents chose the Hungarian name forms (i.e. the exonyms) consistently and accurately in the questionnaire, especially when historically well-established Hungarian name forms were tested; others remarked that if they knew the appropriate Hungarian names, they would use them. Acceptance of or favour for the ‘foreign names’ (i.e. the endonyms) could only be observed sporadically in the survey. Higher age and qualification, as well as neutral or even conservative attitudes in language use, seem to contribute to the preference for using Hungarian name forms, whenever it is possible. Linguistic factors such as language environment, spelling conventions and rules for suffixation also influence the choice of names. It is important to note, however, that there might be significant differ-ences in the currency of the Hungarian name forms; thus, well-known and little-known Hungarian exonyms can only be distinguished if the names are tested individually.

scholarly journals Code-Crossing in Indonesian EFL Classroom Interaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indrayani Simpuruh ◽  
Murni Mahmud ◽  
Kisman Salija ◽  
Abdul Halim
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
English Language ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Transcription Data

The phenomena of language use in the class still become the object of study ever since the languages are essential aspects in classroom interaction. It cannot be denied that in the classroom interaction, the communicative styles of the lecturers and students will be influenced by many aspects. One of them is the social status differences which lead to the occurrence of code-crossing in the class. For that purpose, the study in this paper is directed to explore the occurrence of code-crossing in the class and the factors influencing it. This research applied a qualitative research design taking two English classes and their students at one university in Makassar as the subject. The data of this research were collected by employing classroom observation and audio recording. The data were analyzed descriptively by adopting Discourse Analysis approach which relies on data recording, data transcription, data selection, and data interpretation. The result of the research shows that the lecturers and the students employed code-crossing in EFL classroom interaction which can be seen from the use of low and high code. This study also found that the use of that high and low code in the form of code-crossing of the lecturers and the students is influenced by the power of social status, age differences, the social distance or familiarity, and intimacy between the lecturers and the students. Findings from this study are worthy of reading for English language teaching practitioners in their effort to create effective classroom interaction. 

scholarly journals Zhaahirat Tahwiil al-Syafrah fi al-Muhaadatsah

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-277
Author(s):  
Cahya Buana
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Interesting Study

In all areas of life, human beings will not be separated from the language in the process of communication with each other. Everthing will go well as it can be arranged with the language associated with social conditions (sociolingusitic) is a very interesting study. This paper will discuss one of the objects of languages study, it's the code switching occurs in some forms of speech of speakers who  speak Arabic and Indonesian. The author specialized in the analysis of the causes of code switching in five forms of conversations, namely a desire of speaker to demonstrate his proficiency of bilingual and trying to make the audience believe hismastery, the emotional expression, accelerating the delivery of messages, making the limit between jokes and serious conversation, continuityof using the mother tongue because it is easier, limiting the audience, keep he distance of social status, the awareness that the second languageis also a mother tongue, adopt the foreign sentence, and reinforce the speech.

scholarly journals Proverbs: As the Manifestation of the Folksy Literature and Their Harmony with the Characters of Jamalzade’s Stories

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zohre Mallaki ◽  
Raziye Rostami ◽  
Fatemeh Noofeli
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
The Relationship

This study is going to analyze the relationship and harmony between the proverbs used in Jamalzade’s stories with the social situations of the characters. Jamalzade enjoyed this literature in order to get close to people’s daily language and make his works more impressive. The research’s data showed that Jamalzade could create a modern way of writing in Persian prose by using ordinary people’s language and culture and combining it with Persian. He not only uses proverbs—as one of the most important factors of folksy literature in the formation of his stories, but also puts his best to use them properly according to the characters’ social status; it has made his stories look more realistic. In fact, the relationship and appropriateness of the proverb and characters is such important for him that if he wants to use a proverb in several different situations, he make change in it.

The Gender By Us® Toolkit: A Pilot Study of an Intervention to Disrupt Implicit Gender Bias

Affilia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Bates ◽  
Katie Lauve-Moon ◽  
Rebecca McCloskey ◽  
Dawn Anderson-Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
Psychometric Instruments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Quantitative Results

Using a mixed methods approach, the current study tested whether an intervention, the Gender By Us® Toolkit, decreased implicit gender bias compared to a generic conversation. Researchers randomly assigned participants in the study to the intervention ( n = 11) or a generic conversation ( n = 12). Participants completed pre-, post-, and 2-week follow-up surveys. Valid psychometric instruments and t tests were used to assess group differences on the following measures: (1) the Social Dominance Orientation Scale, (2) the Neosexism Scale, and (3) the Modern Sexism Scale. Quantitative results showed the intervention group scored significantly higher on the Modern Sexism Scale at posttest than the control group ( p = .00), demonstrating increased acknowledgment of gender discrimination. Both groups also were asked open-ended questions related to the intervention and implicit gender bias. Qualitative results suggested that participants’ overall perception was that the intervention increased their awareness of implicit gender biases within themselves and their ability to identify biases in others, yet a comparatively low number of intervention participants retained the ability to identify an example of implicit gender bias at posttest. Findings may indicate the intervention had a small but positive effect on disrupting implicit gender bias.

scholarly journals A Statistical Analysis of the Social Status of Chinese Women: Data Mining Method Based on MapReduce

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangdong Liu ◽  
Mingzhu Yang ◽  
Chengshuai Luo
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
Chinese Labor ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

By studying the influencing indicators of women’s social status, we perform an ordered Logit regression analysis on the data of the China Comprehensive Social Survey in 2012, 2013 and 2015, and then select the assessment of self-social status in the female sample as the dependent variable. Using the impact indicators as independent variables to explore the impact of each variable on women’s social status. At the same time, applying k-means clustering analysis based on MapReduce to mine the relationship between employment and education level between different genders. We find out the fact that women have a high level of education does not necessarily result in good employment treatment. Gender discrimination in the Chinese labor market is also persistent.

scholarly journals The Practice of Veiling as an Expression of the Moral Behaviour of Women and Their Social Status in the Qurʾan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Prenner
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
The One ◽  
Moral Attitudes

Since the Qur’an has been revealed in a very specific historical and cultural context with distinct social conditions, the Qu’ranic regulations for concealment and veiling are investigated using the appropriate terminology. On the one hand, this approach shows how sociocultural conditions changed the Ancient Arabian dress code to promote moral attitudes and social status. On the other hand, it pinpoints concrete events during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered the call for concealment and made veiling part of the social and legal system of Muslim societies.

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