This paper analyzes the sexism in discourse from a new perspective: critical discourse analysis, employing transitivity, modality, transformation and classification as its critical tool to reveal the gender bias against women hidden in several discourses. These discourses are extracted from news reports and real happenings. Based on transitivity choices analysis, it is found that the imbalanced power between men and women. Modality reveals the speaker or writer's biases against women's personality. The analysis of transformations shows that in some reports, the "actor" of a process remains completely unspecified, or an act degrades to be abstract in the case a man does harm to a woman. Through analyzing classification systems, one is aware that the offensive words used to describe women's characteristics are much more than those to describe men. Moreover, it is suggested that the approach of critical discourse analysis will give some enlightenments to writing and reading and enhance readers' critical language awareness. By this means, people can learn some ways to eliminate the gender bias against women in language in order to make successful intercultural communications. |