Gender Differences in Communicative Competence

Abstract

If we are to find differences between men’s and women’s conversational styles we could not leave gender out of consideration. As a consequence of other research studies, it turned out that gender has significant impacts on the differences that exist between men and women. In this paper I will focus on the communication styles and on the differences between the two genders’ language use in mixed gendered communications. I will present some data collected by some researchers of sociolinguists and highlight some points where the two genders’ language uses vary.