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Based on that, one assumed that men and women, especially in different cultures, speak completely different languages. Back then, Wilhelm Breton published a dictionary (‘Dictionnaire Caraibe-Francais’) on the basis of ‘exotic’ indigenous tribes which contained an extensive glossary with words that had exclusively been used by women and those words which only men had used (Ahrens: 2006). However, research on the topic that men and women speak differently had already been conducted in 1664. Not long ago sociolinguists started paying attention to gender. 2 Theoretical Background: Female Talk vs. Finally, the work concludes with a short review and further perspectives.

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Furthermore literature on political talk shows and the general use of language in TV shows will be examined. The third chapter then deals with the analysis of hartaberfair’s presenter Frank Plasberg and Maybrit Illner. According to Fausto-Sterling (2000) biology might help to define sex, but it is only the beliefs about gender that are able to define the sex.įor the second chapter of this work, which covers the theory, more precisely the four different approaches to language and gender, existing literature on gender and language, gender role and language differences are examined. Consequently, labelling someone as a woman or a man is a social construction. In comparison to sex, which is the biological categorisation primarily based on reproductive potential, gender “is the social elaboration of biological sex” (Eckert, McConnell-Ginet: 2003, p.10). It is something that people do something people perform. The working definition of gender, based on West and Zimmerman (1987), Butler (1990) and Fausto-Sterling (2000), is as follows: Gender is nothing people are born with, nor something people have. Hence, this work deals with the pragmatic 1 analysis of gender differences in language based on a comparison of two German talk show presenters. This again shows that male and female language varies. These assumptions are internalised by the vast majority of the population, but are they really true (Coates: 2004)? Or is all that nonsense? The German publishing group Langenscheidt published a dictionary with the title 'German-Woman / Woman-German’ which has especially been created for men so that they can interpret women’s messages correctly. Tabloid newspapers and talk shows tend to suggest that women swear less than men or that women are the more gossipy gender.

1).įigure 1: The male and the female brain (Lenard: 2010)Īccording to the amount of research that has been conducted in this field there are major differences between male and female language.

A female brain has its own relatively big ‘Gossip Lobe’, whereas the male brain has only got a somewhat smaller ‘Guy Talk’ area (see Fig. Language starts in people’s heads, but since the areas and sizes of the different brain parts in women’s and men’s heads are completely unequal it nevertheless is logical that male and female language differs. Moreover, according to the studies, women speak on average 16,215 words and men 15,669 words a day (Mehl et al.: 2007). However, this has been contradicted by the University of Texas - there is no gender that is more talkative. But does this difference also apply to language and talk? 'Women talk more than men!’ - Everybody has already heard of the myth that women are more talkative and use 20,000 words a day, whereas men get by with just 7,000 (Talbot: 2003).

Men and women do not only look different, they literally are different from scratch (Gates: 2008). Illustration not visible in this excerpt 1 Introduction Table 5: Substance Dimension List of Abbreviations Table 1: Dimensions of presentation and their operationalisation for the analysis Graph 1: Duration of Turns List of Tables Male TalkĢ.3 Difference Approach or Two Cultures TheoryĢ.4 Dynamic, Social Constructionist or After Difference Approachģ Pragmatic Analysis of Female and Male Presenters of Political Podium Discussions

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