Women’s language vs. men’s language

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Gender distinctive usage of language start learning		Gender influences the distribution of social roles and economic and social activities one gets access to. These activities, in their turn, influence language use.
Gender influences start learning		-belief that women’s language should be more refined than men’s, -Vocabulary range as an improvement,
R. Lakoff - vocabulary differences start learning		-Precise color terms, -Affective adjectives (adorable), - Women use super polite forms and hedges (you know, well, kind of)
Mary Talbot (1998) start learning		The context of interaction determines the function of a linguistic form. The problem of the inequality of men and women is not a linguistic but rather a social one.

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