Analysis of Gender Stereotyping in English Textbook from A Sociolinguistics Perspective

-- The Case of A New English Grammar Coursebook (Sixth Edition)

Abstract

Human language learning is inextricably linked to its cultural environment. Therefore, the Male-oriented perspective of language bias can give rise to invisible gender stereotypes and internalize them in the minds of language learners. The New English Grammar Course, as a commonly used textbook for English-related majors at the university level, is bound to have a profound impact on college students' values and ways of thinking, and its gender perspective has profound research value. This thesis will build a text corpus of A New English Grammar Coursebook based on quantitative method and text analysis, analyze the linguistic phenomena containing gender stereotypes, and explore the defects of the textbook in several aspects such as masculine subject personal pronouns, strong masculine vocabulary, collocative adjectives, and references to professions and famous people. It also extrapolates past research experiences to finally propose effective ways to address gender stereotyping in textbook texts.