Notes on language and gender

-Emotive language is more common with females
-Men interrupt woman a lot - a trait of male language is that they appear to be less polite compared to women
-As a result males often dominate the coversation

-Language is partiarchal:
-Political correctness dictates that we should not change the gender of language for women (HIStory, etc)
-The 'S' is the suffix which denotes the gender - 'headmistreSS', 'lioneSS', etc
-Women's language is defficient compared to men's - it's less assertive; less powerful.
-Women CO-OPERATE whereas men COMPETE
-'Handsome' VS 'Pretty' - why do we use specific words for each gender?

-Men are more likely to use coloquial language (slang)
-Men also seem to converge more (adopt language for its audience)