SEXISM AND VARIATIONS IN THE USE OF LANGUAGE.

Abstract

Introduction:-Language is a symbol of human civilization, a conveyor of a culture, a product of the social development and an important tool of people " s communication and understanding. Human being is the carrier of the language; all social activities of people, including the ways of thinking, social attitudes and values in all aspects of life, all are reflected in the language. So the sexual sense of language exists in and behind a language in a profound and complicated way. Sexual language is not only the reflection of male or female " s knowledge on society, culture and history etc. with respect to language, but also the regulation and confinement of sexual language by society, culture and history etc. Sexual language (male / female language or men's and women's language) refers to that which is usually used by men and women or that which is characteristic of gender differences. In the sixties and the seventies of last century, a number of linguists and scholars used some principles and knowledge of sociolinguistics to research women's language and found that men and women have differences in the language A major topic in sociolinguistics is the difference between the structures, vocabularies, and ways of using particular languages and the social roles of the men and women who speak these languages. Usually men and women who speak particular language use it in different ways, these differences arise from the structure of the language and any difference that exists simply reflect the ways in which the sexes related to each other in that society. It is also questioned if it is possible to describe a particular language as " sexist " or we should reserve such a description for those who use that language.