Sexist language is language that expresses bias in favor of one sex and thus treats the other sex in a discriminatory manner. In most cases, the bias is in favor of men and against women. This paper firstly discusses sexist language from two typical aspects: sexism in words and sexism in proverbs. Then it emphasizes that owing to Women’s Liberation Movement in Western Countries, women’s social ...

This paper discusses how stereotypes and/or attitudes and positions of women men are reflected in sexist language, focusing on metaphorical expressions the study syntactic structures such as transitivity grammatical relations. Based qualitative analysis web-based linguistic data two novels from a female author, we found that Indonesian conceptualise ANIMALS, COMMODITIES/GOODS, FOODS, DUMPING SI...

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Abstract: Sexism is a judgment made by society on how men and women are represented. This study investigates the use of sexism in languages called sexist reason why characters uttered it movie Colette. Therefore, two theories used this study. The first theory from Mills (2008) that divides into overt indirect sexism. Then, second Weatherall (2002) who states usage making invisible, causing to b...