Introduction
It is considered that language is like “a mirror image of society” or “a system of measurement to evaluate the social perceptions” in various aspects of human life in different societies at different historical timeline. (Khang, 2011). Social changings push the development of language to recognize and reflect those movements. Beside social factors, cultural background, the growth of economy, education… gender also has a huge impact on the way of using language between two groups female and male. Gender is classified into female and male, similarly, language still exists some areas in which it is used exclusively only either for this group or the another in itself. Therefore, it can be said that the relation between language and …show more content…
In this study, because the topic of language and gender is too board and requires extensive knowledge about sociolinguistics, I just concentrate on the problems revolving around how the influence of gender differentiates language usage and the gender-exclusive factors are reflected in language pattern along with providing further examples to gain a deep insight of …show more content…
For example, when a woman leaves a restaurant, she will say “it’s a gorgeous meal” however, if a man wants to express his agreement, he may only say” it’s a good meal”. Their words are much simpler than women’s. The more adjectives women use to describe things and their feelings, the more sensitive they are to the environment and more able to link their emotions with words, which contributes women’s language diversification than men sometimes.
Swear words and expletives
Perhaps the gentleness is one of the easiest identifiable characteristics about women’s speech. So, it’s rare for female to use swear and dirty words because they believe that those ones are quite rude and give the others an uncivil impression, more importantly, also sour their relationship with others. That’s the reason why when striking up a conversation, they highly pay attention to use their use of language and their sayings are rarely uttered such words like” shit, damn you,” instead of “oh dear, god” to express their feelings. Let us give you an example:
Woman: Oh dear! You’ve put the peanut butter in the refrigerator
It is considered that language is like “a mirror image of society” or “a system of measurement to evaluate the social perceptions” in various aspects of human life in different societies at different historical timeline. (Khang, 2011). Social changings push the development of language to recognize and reflect those movements. Beside social factors, cultural background, the growth of economy, education… gender also has a huge impact on the way of using language between two groups female and male. Gender is classified into female and male, similarly, language still exists some areas in which it is used exclusively only either for this group or the another in itself. Therefore, it can be said that the relation between language and …show more content…
In this study, because the topic of language and gender is too board and requires extensive knowledge about sociolinguistics, I just concentrate on the problems revolving around how the influence of gender differentiates language usage and the gender-exclusive factors are reflected in language pattern along with providing further examples to gain a deep insight of …show more content…
For example, when a woman leaves a restaurant, she will say “it’s a gorgeous meal” however, if a man wants to express his agreement, he may only say” it’s a good meal”. Their words are much simpler than women’s. The more adjectives women use to describe things and their feelings, the more sensitive they are to the environment and more able to link their emotions with words, which contributes women’s language diversification than men sometimes.
Swear words and expletives
Perhaps the gentleness is one of the easiest identifiable characteristics about women’s speech. So, it’s rare for female to use swear and dirty words because they believe that those ones are quite rude and give the others an uncivil impression, more importantly, also sour their relationship with others. That’s the reason why when striking up a conversation, they highly pay attention to use their use of language and their sayings are rarely uttered such words like” shit, damn you,” instead of “oh dear, god” to express their feelings. Let us give you an example:
Woman: Oh dear! You’ve put the peanut butter in the refrigerator