An SFL approach to gender ideology in the sentence examples in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary

This study concerns the gender ideology reflected by dictionary examples. It mainly used the transitivity and interpersonal systems in Systemic Functional Linguistics to analyze the gender discourse in the seventh edition of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (CCD7). The analysis reveals certain differences between the transitivity patterns and interpersonal meaning of female- and male-related sentence examples from the A-B sections of CCD7. Women's experiences are mostly confined to themselves and their adjacent environment. Their actions are often self-directed, seldom affecting other participants or the environment. In contrast, men are usually portrayed as the typical social men, active social participants, and shapers of the environment, whose actions often bring concrete changes to ...

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