Sexual Discrimination in Italian and Chinese

Haihong ZHANG

Abstract


As an important communicative tool and a mirror of culture, language inevitably reflects social customs and conventions. Sexual discrimination is a phenomenon that typified most patriarchal societies. This discrimination, as it is reflected in the Italian and Chinese language use, can be found in markedness, word order, semantics, appellation, occupation, etc..

Keywords


Sexual discrimination; Markedness; Word order; Semantics; Appellation; Occupation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/8371

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