LEADING TO LANGUAGE AND GENDER STUDY: WHY AND WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

Abstract

Language inquisitiveness seems to be unstoppable till today. Investigation into aspects keeps going around across time and space. In further development of language research after age-based language use studies, currently  language enthusiasts’, especially sociolinguists, are  eager to find out  language use according to gender such as how language is used by male and female. Whether or not men’s language  and women’s language show broad differences in the way they do and say things has become another interesting thing to look into. More specifically,  such research is aimed at finding whether there are certain features of female and male language expressions which show distinct characteristics due to the two kinds of gender. However, information about the framework as the basis for finding the language features of both genders is still inadequate to many.  This paper will present information which is obtained from a number of sources to help language gender researchers carry out research on that current issue. Some pieces of information related to language gender discussion which covered are 1. A Brief Account of the Women’s Liberation Movement and Its influence on Language and Gender study. 2 Language Use Equality . How Men and Women Use Language. What aspects of language use can be elaborated between Women and Men? Hopefully, these points will be of some help to anyone of us who is interested in the area of language study in the attempt to disclose distinctive features of language used by female and male.

Key words: Language use, Language gender, distinctive features of language