【正文】 of sexual liberties, while intolerance towards women. Ⅳ. The Strategies of Eliminating or Avoiding Sexism in English In English language, people can find universal phenomena of sexism, but with the vigorous developing of women’s liberation movement and the improving of women’s status, the sexism in English language have desalinated. Two ways are used to eliminate the sexist English, they are: language strategies and social strategies. A. Language Strategies Eliminating the sexist language is to apply standard language, and populate the neutral words and expressions, and avoid the masculine words in the munication. 1. Population of Neutral Words and Expressions The most important thing to erase the sexism in English language is to spread the neutralization of words and expressions, the neutralization of them is to stop the generation of the sexist words with “man” as their suffix and the usages of the sexist job titles, to populate the usages of affix “ person” to replace the words with “man”, such as chairperson replaces chairman, mailperson replaces mailman, salesperson replaces salesman, etc. It’s a new trend to spread neutral words and use the genderfree words. Such as the words teacher, officer, dealer, coach, child, clerk, politician, leader, tutor, writer, and expert, etc. and try to avoid the words ending with suffix “man”. For instance, use firefighter instead of fireman, supervisor instead of foreman, and seller instead of salesman, and so on. 2. Avoiding of the Generalization of Masculine Word “He” One of the most difficult problems is the lack of a singular personal pronoun with which to refer to one person whose sex is unknown or irrelevant. Traditionally “he” has been used, with “his” as the possessive, but the use of “his” is open to the same objection as the use of man. The solutions are: first, changing to a plural and use “they” and “their” for the singular, so change the sentence: “if a student can39。ll have to do the work in his own time” to: “If a student can39。s names are very different from those of women39。 (2) human being of either sex person。 “humankind”. If not, the two sentences could be changed into: (3) Woman is a social animal. (4) Women remake nature. From analysis above, it is clear to see that the status of female is lower than male, from point of conceptual meaning. 2. Sexism in Connotative Meaning Connotative meaning means what is municated by virtue of what language refers It is extension of conceptual meaning. In sexist words, connotative meaning conveys clearly sexism. a. Original Connotation in Words’ Gender Different words such as woman, female, lady and so on express female adult, which have different connotative meanings and whose ranges of using are changing continuously. However, these female words are endowed by the society with the meaning of weak and ignorant. For instance, the denotative meaning of woman is female adult, but it contents derogatory sense of weak, liking crying, sentimental, attached, passive, narrowminded and being gossip from connotative meaning. Although it also has the meaning of diligent, kindhearted and patient, the derogatory sense is more. It is often to say “She is a woman after all”, which expresses obviously the meaning of looking down upon female. b. Changes of the Connotation of the Sexpaired Words There are many pairs of sexpaired words such as, lord lady, barodame, mastermistress, call boycall girl, bachelorspinster, governorgoverness, mister madam, etc. These words are semantically equivalent originally, but with the changes of their meaning, feminine words gradually gain derogatory even obscene connotation. However, the masculine terms remain their mendatory connotation. The following are the examples: “Governor”, in the extended fourth edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s EnglishChinese Dictionary, means “person appointed to govern a province or state (especially a colony abroad).”10 “Governess” refers to “(especially formerly) woman employed to teach young children in their home (usually living as a member of the household)”.11 In old English, these two words respectively refer to a man or woman who exercises a sovereign authority in a colony, territory or states. As time goes by, the meaning of the word “governess” is “woman who is employed to teach young children,” or “wom an having regular sexual intercourse with one man to whom she is not married.” But the word “governor” keeps its original meaning basically. “Mistress” is originally explained as a woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household like a housekeeper, or something personified as female that directs or reigns. Similarly “master” is an employer, one who has control over or ownership of something or the man who serves as the head of a household. It even has the mendatory sense which means one who defeats another, a victor or Jesus. But, gradually “mistress” refers to a woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a married man usually who is not her husband and from whom she generally receives material supports. Contrarily, the meaning of “master” remains still. As for “bachelor” and “spinster”, both refer to unmarried or single person. But “bachelor” implies an unmarried man who lives a happy and perhaps libertine life, while “spinster” conjures up an image of an old, indifferent, solitary and unappealing woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying. In a word, those changes of connotation of the feminine words are the typical examples of existence of social prejudice against woman. 3. Sexism in Associative Meaning Associative meaning is meaning that hinges on referential meaning, less stable, more cultural specific. A lot of words convey looking