语言实施的性别围困——权力话语下的第三性

"第三性"是当今社会对女博士的代称。它是对追求独立,实现自我价值的高学历女性的一种排斥和异化现象在语言上的反映。女人往往被称作"第二性"或"他者,"女博士从女人这个群体中被排挤了出来,成为"他者中的他者"。这个二度他者化的过程体现了社会心理和文化通过大众话语来掌控社会的事实。福柯关于话语和权力的关系理论表明话语(语言)是众多的大众维护、重组社会秩序的有效机制,权力通过话语发挥作用,话语的流通又进一步加强了权力。"第三性"一词的出现和流传是男性强权统治受到挑战时的话语应对机制运作的结果。此外,语言本体论的观点表明语言不但反映世界,而且语言就是社会现实。所以,"第三性"这一语言形式直指女博士困窘的现状,它表明我们有赖于语言维护、打破、重建社会秩序,人类和语言共存。

Gender Connotations in the Use of Language: The Third Sex under the Power of Language

The "third sex," an expression referring to the females with doctorate degrees,reflects their marginalized position as a result of categorizing them as the "other type".A probe into the relations between power and public discourse,mainly in the light of Foucault's theory,reveals that this new expression serves as a mechanism for the public to maintain and reorganize a so-called desirable social order.In addition,from the ontological view of language,text directly forms a basis of the cruel reality rather than simply mirrors it.Therefore,the expression of "third sex" describes a world in which language controls,breaks and reconstructs the order.