Analysis on Sexism in English Lexicons from the Perspective of Metaphor  

作　　者：杜夏丹 DU Xia-dan(Beijing Language and Culture University,Beijing 100083,China)

机构地区：[1]北京语言大学

出　　处：《海外英语》2018年第20期105-106,共2页Overseas English

摘　　要：Metaphors We Live By lieve that metaphor is not only the form of human language, but the fundamental mode of human thought and behavior. This thesiswill make further analyses of the vocabularies reflecting sexism from three aspects:animal metaphor, plant metaphor and food meta-phor. In addition, this paper makes a simple analysis of the causes of the phenomenon. Thereby people can have a better under-standing of the language system and the appropriate usage of language.Metaphors We Live By lieve that metaphor is not only the form of human language, but the fundamental mode of human thought and behavior. This thesiswill make further analyses of the vocabularies reflecting sexism from three aspects：animal metaphor, plant metaphor and food meta-phor. In addition, this paper makes a simple analysis of the causes of the phenomenon. Thereby people can have a better under-standing of the language system and the appropriate usage of language.

关 键 词：SEXISM METAPHOR English lexicons 

分 类 号：H315.9[语言文字—英语]