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Language and gender

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 Language and gender itself is an area of study
within socio-linguistics, applied linguistics and related
fields that investigates varieties of speech associated
with a particular gender.
Language and gender
Language and gender consist of :
Minimal response
Question
Turn-talking
change the topic of conversation
Self-disclosure
Verbal aggression
politeness
 It is one of the way in which the communication
differ.
women has response frequently when they
have a conversation.
For eg:
mhmm and yeah
men has less response than women when they
have a conversation.
For eg:
Generally use mhmm and yeah less
frequently
Question
Men and women differ in their use of
questions in conversation.
Women use question more frequently.
They usually used question tag to avoid
making strong statements.
Turn-talking

Female linguistic behaviour characteristically

encompasses a desire to talk turns in
conversation with others which is opposed to
mens tendency towards centre on their own
point (or) remaining silent when presenting
with some inflicts offers of conversational
turn talking as provided by hedges such as
isnt it.
 According to study of same-sex friend
interactions,
Male tends to change Subject more
frequently than female.
This differences may well be at the route
of the conception that women chatter
and talk too much.
Girls are link their utterances to previous
speakers and develop each other topics
rather than introducing new topics.
Women topic:
Gossip
Child-rea
Men
Personal relationship
Shopping

Mens topic:
Politics
sports
cars
 It is the process was originally was Originally
Defined as telling others about the self.
Women:
Sharing their problems with others often to
offer sympathy.
They usually asked their friend bout their
problems.
MEN
Male tendencies to non-self disclosure and
professing advice or offering a solution, when
confronted with anothers problems.
Because man usually solve their problems by
themselves.
Women:
Engage in angry talk which is typically characterised
by vituperative and brazen displays of insults and
shouting.

Men:
Focussed on the down play of conflict in order
of maintain the illusion of harmony.
 Politeness is the best expressed as the practical
application of
good manners (or)
etiquette.

According to Lakoff
(1975), he identified three forms of politeness.
Womens language is characterized by the formal and
defernce politeness, whereas mens language is
exemplified by spirit of familiarity and closeness.

POLiteness
 Today, there are no languages that do not
distinguish between genders between genders.
Language that does not promote gender
equality may shape the social stereotypes of
gender. Gender usage in language can impact
our perceptions negatively.