DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF MALE AND FEMALE ORAL SPEECH IN MODERN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article evaluates gender differences in the oral speech of men and women in such aspects as verbosity, balance, response construction, non-verbal communication, lexical component, etc. The study was conducted on American and British talk shows, interviews differing in subject matter and style. The obtained results show that men and women have problems with communication with men and women.

Keywords

Speech, gender differences, verbosity, hedging, talk show