Language use in all its forms remain to be the most important communication tool for and used by people to communicate. It helps us to reflect the daily happenings in a society, but also has various functions to strengthen as well as maintain social existence among people. From such a view, language mirrors the gendered perspectives and can also impact and contribute to changing people 's perception of gender over time. Men and women on the other hand are the main bodies in social activities. Because of the difference in gender, there arises many differences when we use language. Thus there is a narrow relationship found between the different genders and language use.
The way we use language to compare people and groups can affect the way those …show more content…
Men raise topics which women support most often. However women’s topics are less actively supported and frequently or actively discouraged as well. Some studies have shown that the American men will tend to be more likely to give direct commands, while for the American women she is likely to ask questions which further a conversation. Ladies tend to give verbal responses and give compliments. The combinations of these behaviors supposedly place men in the position of being the ones controlling a conversation, while women on the other hand do the “interactional housework” so as to keep the talk going (Coates 1993:114-29). For example, whenever a woman talk with a man, they usually would use the favorable languages so as to gain better impressions from the man. However for the men, they would not avoid using the antipathy …show more content…
In this approach, it assumes that as a fact that the interactions found between males and females only are attempts toward majorly male domination or alternatively for social inequalities. The approach allows for interpretations of the communication problems found between women and men as a result of the inequalities in hierarchical statuses and also the gender roles they hold in society. Speeches by women was considered unimportant. As a result they tend to use linguistic forms that are associated with their positions in the society, which are low placed. These forms include questions tags, hedges, question intonations and politeness strategies among others. To the contrary, speeches by men, for example, are an implicit and profound tool of patriarchal power acquired through conscious or less conscious training on gender-role where men learn how to dominate a conversation, mostly through talk time or interruptions. (Spender, 1985; Tannen, 1990; West & Zimmerman,
The way we use language to compare people and groups can affect the way those …show more content…
Men raise topics which women support most often. However women’s topics are less actively supported and frequently or actively discouraged as well. Some studies have shown that the American men will tend to be more likely to give direct commands, while for the American women she is likely to ask questions which further a conversation. Ladies tend to give verbal responses and give compliments. The combinations of these behaviors supposedly place men in the position of being the ones controlling a conversation, while women on the other hand do the “interactional housework” so as to keep the talk going (Coates 1993:114-29). For example, whenever a woman talk with a man, they usually would use the favorable languages so as to gain better impressions from the man. However for the men, they would not avoid using the antipathy …show more content…
In this approach, it assumes that as a fact that the interactions found between males and females only are attempts toward majorly male domination or alternatively for social inequalities. The approach allows for interpretations of the communication problems found between women and men as a result of the inequalities in hierarchical statuses and also the gender roles they hold in society. Speeches by women was considered unimportant. As a result they tend to use linguistic forms that are associated with their positions in the society, which are low placed. These forms include questions tags, hedges, question intonations and politeness strategies among others. To the contrary, speeches by men, for example, are an implicit and profound tool of patriarchal power acquired through conscious or less conscious training on gender-role where men learn how to dominate a conversation, mostly through talk time or interruptions. (Spender, 1985; Tannen, 1990; West & Zimmerman,