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e condition for women usage in expression of feeling." There exists gender difference of development speed and level of brain hemisphere specialization function. Women' left brain grows earlier, and levels are higher, whereas men' right brain grows earlier, and levels higher. This accounts for male's better special ability and female's better language ability.
Through the comparison of Sandra Bullock-- Jeff Bridges，Kate Winslet-- Sean Pen and Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattison, it can be proved that female are inclined to use more hedges, and that women use diverse hedges words , while men use plain hedges words. Therefore, hedges in female utterance have the natural condition for more frequent use. Getting to the bottom of the matter, women' advantageous language ability elaborates the character.
4.2 Psychological factor
From psychology mechanism, the female's growth environment makes feeling deeper, and more meticulous. Doctor Caroline, the professor of Institute of Pedagogy in Harvard, disclosed in her book the female stance in the male life cycle (1982): Female's main character is to care and love others, pay attention to delicate feeling in the communication relationship. At the same time, in allusion to the Freudian mental theory" male suppresses female", she points out in a sharp way: caring, loving people and emotion aren't female' flaw, but the superiority by the comparison of male.
Female and male get different gender identification in the growth process since the childhood. Psychologically, this leads to more emotion enlightenment for female so that it develops in the direction of the female role. It isn't strange that female would pay more attention to the way they express. There is no doubt that women are tending towards modesty, patience, and cooperation in the communication. Even if they have different opinions, they will not express themselves directly to show their personality on purpose, but deliver themselves implicitly. Thus, in order to get balance of mental and emotion, reach an aim of communication, and obtain the effect of politeness, women will attach more importance to hedges properly. For instance,
(1) Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down?-- Sandra Bullock
In this sentence, the prize-winner asks aquestion. "我是真的凭本事赢得了这个奖，还是你们被我烦死了（颁个奖了事）？". It shows the winner lacks a little bit confidence. The use of "really" and "just" emphasizes the question tone, which shows the person's mental inadaptability or modesty and cooperation to convey feelings obscurely.
(2)"I feel very fortunate to have made it all the way from there to here."-- Kate Winslet
"I feel", a plausibility word, embodies the winner's thoughts in the deep heart so that it shows the mental and feelings cognition of oneself about hedges in female utterance. "Very" proves the winner's strong mental reaction, stating "表演之路一路走来，感觉自己是非常的幸运". The two words imply the winner's excitement of the Oscar prize in that the winner knows it difficult to achieve this award.
4.3 The factor of utterance topic
Xu Lisheng (1997) believed that women always talk about interpersonal affairs, but men are opposite because they avoid exposing themselves and keep some distance with the communication situation. The hottest topic of women is livelihood and affection, which has close connection with their status, jo