LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Gender and Careful Linguistic Behaviour

Urooj Fatima Alvi, M.Phil. (Linguistics) Dr. Shafqat Rasool, Ph.D. (Education)

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In sociolinguistic research, the topic of gender difference in accordance with language use has thrown light on a number of social, cultural and psychological aspects of both groups in every community. In Pakistan, this sociolinguistic aspect of language use also needs to be studied critically for the equal rights and security of women identity. This will investigate the variation of some sociolinguistic features by examining them within the language of both genders in order to determine whether there are differences according to speech style in terms of degree of ‘carefulness’.

The research is closely related to some of the fundamental issues of gender differences in language use. Gender differences can be understood by the analysis of language in the context of general behaviour.

Gender differences, in the context of sociolinguistics, have been studied in great detail over the past few decades. There are mainly two significant approaches which provide direction in this research area. The dominance approach suggests that males have a dominating role from the beginning and females have a subordinating role and their language use represents the same identification indeed. The difference approach is based on the argument that men and women belong to different subcultures and there is an essential difference in their social and psychological hierarchy. However, the gender difference through language use is very important to study the sociolinguistic and cultural aspects of every community as it personifies the general tendency of male and female behaviour.

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Urooj Fatima Alvi, M.Phil. (Linguistics)
University of Management and Technology
Lahore
Pakistan
uroojalvi@hotmail.com

Dr. Shafqat Rasool, Ph.D. (Education)
Department of Education
GC University
Faisalabad
Pakistan
Shafqat_wattoo@yahoo.com
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