The main purpose of this paper is to review what sexism of language is and how linguists have approached this new issue in the 1970S. For convenience, four topics are dealt with through this paper: (1) Background of the study; (2) Sexism in the struct...
The main purpose of this paper is to review what sexism of language is and how linguists have approached this new issue in the 1970S. For convenience, four topics are dealt with through this paper: (1) Background of the study; (2) Sexism in the structure of the English language; (3) Sexism reflected in lexical items; (4) Future perspectives and suggestions.