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Introduction Ever since the existence of human beings, man has been existing in two different genders -male and female. On account of the differences between their physiological features and the superiority and inferiority in social activities, men and women are differentiated from each other in individuality, value image and status, which give rise to variations in their language styles and language uses. Women, due to their special status in social history, have more characteristics in using language. More than twenty years ago, Allen Pace Nilson, an English professor and assistant vice-president for academic affairs at Arizona State University, began a card catalog of sexist language, what began as a study of language grew into a commitment to social charge. Nilson concludes that sexism will not disappear from our language until it is erased from our minds. In our culture, the two genders are separate. We will see that different adjectives are used for men and women and that different occupations, behaviors, and even ways of standing and sitting are designated as male and female. To begin at the beginning, life on earth has been going on for three thousand million years or more. Since human beings came into existence, man has being existing in two genders——male and female. On account of the differences between their physical features and the superiority and inferiority in social activities, man and women are differentiated from each other in individuality, value image and status, which give rise to variations in their language styles and language uses. Women have more characteristics in communication, due to their special status in social history, Communication is a subtle but extremely important aspect of gender socialization. It is the lens through which we see the culture; it may set limits on our thoughts and our ability to describe things. We do not pretend to have the doubt of gender differences in communication. Certainly there are many individual differences in communication; neither all women nor all men are alike, nor can their communication characteristics be categorized in terms of gender alone. But research has uncovered some interesting trends in differences between the two genders, and many of those differences appear to have little basis in biology or innate gender differences. Gender differences are perpetuated in communication in many ways, such as men tend to talk more and women tend to listen more, men's greatest conversational interest seemed to be concerned with business and money while women's leading topics were men and clothes; males tend to assume relaxed postures while females tend to assume tense and so on. And also, behavior can be inferred from style of language. Men are often described in the active voice-"He married her"; "He took her in marriage"-while women are often described in the passive voice-"She was romanced by him"; "She was given to him in marriage." We learn subtle message from this language style. In our culture, the two genders are separate. We will see that different adjectives are used for men and for women and that different occupations, behavior, and even ways of standing and designated as male and females. Let's see the differences from talk and nonverbal communication in human communication in the following. 1．Gender differences in talk It is well known that talk plays a very important part in our communication. Verbal exchange is valued highly in our society. In th