Language and gender in society. A literature review

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 67% Curtin University of Technology (Seameo retrac) course: Master of applied lingustics language: English abstract: This paper looks at the literature which has helped us to understand the topic: language and gender in society. It provides a context of past and recent developments in language and gender theories. It focuses on two types of studies: 1. Sex exclusive speech differences and 2. Sex preferential speech features. It also examines the three major approaches to language and gender: Deficit theory Difference theory and Social Constructivist approach. Discoveries from previous research of these studies are also mentioned and discussed in this paper.