叶斯帕森曾说,英语是他所熟悉的所有语言中最男性化的语言。语言的这一性别特征引起了女权主义者和社会语言学家的关注,语言改造成为社会语言学界特别是女权主义者奋斗的目标。一最早进行的语言与性别研究是在20世纪的初期,丹麦语言学家叶斯帕森(Otto Jespersen)出版了他的新著 Yeprasang once said that English is the most masculine language of all languages ​​that he is familiar with. This gender feature of language aroused the concern of feminists and social linguists, and language transformation became the goal of social linguistics especially feminists. One of the earliest studies of language and gender was at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen published his new book