A Sociolinguistic Exploration Of The Difference Between Male Speech And That Of Female Speech

Abstract

It has been observed that male speech and female speech tend to differ in their form, topic, content, and use. Early writers were highly introspective in their analyses; more recent work has begun to provide empirical evidence. Male speech might be more direct. Men tend to use more of the non-standard variety of languages. However, women, more often than not, are more supportive, polite, expressive, talk more about home and family, etc. This study was conducted to sociolinguistically examine whether male speech is any different from that of female speech if age and level of education are treated as confounding variables.