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Gender in Chinese Language: A Study of Words containing Woman Radical in Chinese Characters

Author(s) Manju Rani Hara
Country India
Abstract It has been opined by many scholars of linguistics that Chinese language has a strong patriarchal bias. In the 20th century China, the linguistic and cultural bias in its language somehow remained intact despite the turbulent changes that China experienced thorough the processes of Socialist and modernist transformations. The paper, through the perspective of theory of Sociolinguistics and Markedness, will examine a selection of Chinese characters that contains women radical “女”, such as forms of address for women, certain nouns, verbs etc with women radical marking. The paper will also try to make a general attempt in understanding how certain words and terms in their deployment in communicative context are linked to influencing a person’s thought cognitively and socially.
Keywords Gender, women, Chinese characters, feminine, masculine, gender bias, gender discrimination, linguistic features
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2024
Published On 2024-09-12
Cite This Gender in Chinese Language: A Study of Words containing Woman Radical in Chinese Characters - Manju Rani Hara - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i05.27265
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i05.27265
Short DOI https://doi.org/gwfgkt

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