From Different Corners

Language and Gender Differences

​The relationship between gender and language had been one of the most debated topics since the beginning of women`s movement in the late 1960s. The movement that had tried to look at the representation of gender in different fields. More specifically, the concept of gender and language is always associated with the differences between women and men in terms of the way the speech is structured and the way language is used. Thus, and because of the social norms and what every society dictates on its individuals, these differences between men and women`s speech were omnipresent across a range of languages. In this article an attempt will be made to inspect some of the gender differences common in men`s and women`s speeches.