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There’s an intimate link between language and ideology, and social relations are mediated through language. The lexicographical treatment of cultural loaded lexical item has a direct influence on the dictionary users’ perception of the world, the conceptualization of categories in that world and how the user will act in future. This paper seeks to analyze how gender differences are presented in learners’ dictionaries from a society-oriented cross-linguistic perspective, and finally we find there is an observable “anthropological turn” in the treatment of the example sentences in some distinguished English learners’ dictionaries.
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This article is sponsored by “Thirteen-Five Major Project” for National Science and Technology Terminology Validation Committee (ZD2019001), China Social Science Fund (2018FYY006), China Natural Science Fund (61877013), and Guangdong Science and Technology Department Project (2018A070712032).
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Yu, P., Du, J., Li, X. (2020). Towards the Linguistic Gender Differentiation in Dictionaries: A Perspective of Human Interaction in Languages. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Colson, S., Choplin, A. (eds) Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. IHIET 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_33
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