Is It Really True That Women Speak Differently From Men?
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Is It Really True That Women Speak Differently From Men?
Abstract
The relationship between language and gender has long been the research topic of general interest in sociolinguistics. With the growth and the development of the feminist social movement in the 1960s, western scholars and sociolinguists have done a lot of researches on the gender-differentiated use of language. Despite the various kinds of researches concerning gender differences in language in the past few decades, most researchers seem to neglect the importance of the context in which communications take place. As a result, the studies of gender and language seem to suffer from the problem: abstraction or generalization. What's more, how to explain speech differences between men and women still remains a question in dispute among sociolinguists. What the present
dissertation intends to do is to carry out a contextualized research of speech differences between men and women in the English language, to explore the origins of the speech differences and to discuss the significance or practical implications of the study.
With the analysis and discussions, the author offers some considerations with regard to the significance of the study. On the one hand, the communicative problems between men and women can be avoided with better understandings of the different conversational patterns. On the other hand, men and women can benefit a lot from learning from each other. Finally the author points out that the present study is one of the attempts to represent the new direction of gender difference studies in language, hoping that the present study may bring some new insight in the study of gender difference language studies.
Key words: gender, speech differences, public contexts, conversational analysis
1. Introduction
Language is one of the most powerful symbols of social behavior. In the normal transfer of information through language, we use language to send vital social messages about who we are, where we come from, and who we associate with. It is often shocking to realize how extensively we may judge a person's background, character, and intentions based simply upon the person's language, accent, or, in some instances, even the choice of a single word.
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