Language and gender

•   I think that the language of men is much different to the language of women, however there are many exceptions.
•   I think that swear words are much more masculine words and it would have been more shocking if you heard a woman swearing in comparison to hearing a man swearing however I think that this is changing and women are quickly gaining equal status to men in terms of language.
•  I think that both genders have quite different language features such as the lexis they may tend to use etc.
•  Rap music seems to be very derogatory of women and I would be interested in finding out more about this
•  There also may be dominance involved in language and gender in which the male speech is more dominant than female speech.
• Men tend to state factual information whereas women tend to work on building and maintaining relationships through language.
• Men tend to use paralinguistic features such as backchannelling less frequently than women.
• Women tend to ask questions more frequently than men do.