Interpersonal appellation

Intimate appellation

In the west, male bosses can use some nicknames to express intimacy when addressing female subordinates, such as sugar, darling, sweetie and girlie. Conversely, female subordinates can't use these nicknames to address their bosses, and female bosses can't address male employees like this. However, strange men or unfamiliar men can call women by nicknames, which shows that women have lower social status and less respect than men in Anglo-American society. [2](P74)

Name appellation

In the west, women usually take their father's surname before marriage and their husband's surname after marriage. For example, at a western wedding, when the bride and groom walked into the church, the priest announced, "I am proud of you and your wife now." "Married men or men, married women from miss into a wife. This phenomenon is not lacking among feminists and professional women. " [2](P74) Hilary Rodham, the wife of then US President Bill Clinton, is also defending herself, that is, supporting married women to mark not only their husbands' surnames, but also their husbands' surnames instead of their fathers' surnames. Although Hillary Rodham is a feminist, she changed her name from Hillary Rodham to Hillary Rodham Clinton according to her husband and her own political needs, and finally changed it to Hillary Clinton. However, no matter how you change it, you can't go beyond the following choices: take your father's surname or your husband's surname. This title, which puts the husband's surname first, shows that a woman becomes her husband's private property after marriage and belongs to her husband, so she can't get equal rights with her husband. Unmarried women take Miss as their father's surname, while married women take Mrs or Lady as their husband's surname.

Referential appellation

1) When it comes to men and women, they are not in an equal position, but men come before women.

King and queen, brothers and sisters, father and mother, boy and girl, husband and wife, Adam and Eve, man and woman, Mr. Lucas and his wife Louise.

2) Some words without masculine symbols in form are customarily regarded as masculine words.

People in English and other English-speaking countries are used to thinking of professors, doctors, lawyers, surgeons, trial lawyers, magistrates and so on. All men. When we hear someone say: My cousin is a professor, most people will conclude that the professor is a man. In order to show that these words are female, they can usually be preceded by modifiers, such as woman, lady and female. Such as: female professors, female doctors, female workers, etc. The use of these so-called neutral words reflects from one side that the occupations with higher status in the old society were monopolized by men. On the contrary, it is generally believed that teachers, nurses, secretaries, models, etc. All women. If it's a man, it should be preceded by a man or a man, such as a male nurse and a male teacher. These habits are not only related to historical reality, but also a kind of social prejudice.