Key words: standard, female speech, sex differences, sex discrimination Abstract: Sex differences exist nearly in every aspect of human life, it can also be called as sex discrimination, which is the consequence of society. Many studies have shown that women generally use forms differently from men. Approximately, their forms are more close to those of the standard language than do men of the same social background, age, and so on. There are many reasons for …
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…man, but woman becomes wife. And "God of fathers" is widely used in "Gates of prayer" which is a prayer book of Jewish. Sex differences in speech are an objective phenomenon of society. Like race differences, it accounts for the fact that it is the use of language rather than language itself that may be good or evil. Only when true equality in society is realized can the prejudice or bias be eliminated from language.