Gender Differences
Psychology of gender differences
The thought that men and women speak different languages become a statement of belief. Wide ranges of people also believe that woman talk more than man. Despite this widespread believe, evidence suggest that social perspective and relative power determine who talks more. From our class reading, I am going to compare and contrast between “Sex differences” and “Women talk too much”.
In the “Sex Differences”, Ronald Macaulay tries to argue that its myth and stereotyping that sex differences show up language pattern. On the other hand “Women Talk too much,” is an article written by Holms and on her article she tried to prove that women talk too much is a myth. There are many similarities and dissimilarities between those two essays. The main similarity of those two essays is- in both essays writer tried to prove that, the way general people think about women or sex differences are wrong. On the other hand the main dissimilarity of those two essays is authors view towards the society. Their ideas are very helpful for the development of our society. Macaulay and Holmes both argue to prove their ideas. Macaulay uses research work to support his ideas and Holmes uses examples to prove her ideas. Macaulay starts with a chronology of research on books written by Jespersen in the 1920. On that book, the author mentioned how women were heavily stereotyped in regard of language use and their knowledge of language. According to the book he shows us that, in previous it was believed that, women use only easy words and focus more on the central field of the language, at the same time men will hold new words easily. He also mentioned that woman have less vocabulary reserve compared to men. Jespersen also include that woman is linguistically quicker and better than man. However, Macaulay thinks this is a stereotype. On the other hand, Holmes provided examples to prove who talk more. At the beginning of her essay she raised a question that,
The thought that men and women speak different languages become a statement of belief. Wide ranges of people also believe that woman talk more than man. Despite this widespread believe, evidence suggest that social perspective and relative power determine who talks more. From our class reading, I am going to compare and contrast between “Sex differences” and “Women talk too much”.
In the “Sex Differences”, Ronald Macaulay tries to argue that its myth and stereotyping that sex differences show up language pattern. On the other hand “Women Talk too much,” is an article written by Holms and on her article she tried to prove that women talk too much is a myth. There are many similarities and dissimilarities between those two essays. The main similarity of those two essays is- in both essays writer tried to prove that, the way general people think about women or sex differences are wrong. On the other hand the main dissimilarity of those two essays is authors view towards the society. Their ideas are very helpful for the development of our society. Macaulay and Holmes both argue to prove their ideas. Macaulay uses research work to support his ideas and Holmes uses examples to prove her ideas. Macaulay starts with a chronology of research on books written by Jespersen in the 1920. On that book, the author mentioned how women were heavily stereotyped in regard of language use and their knowledge of language. According to the book he shows us that, in previous it was believed that, women use only easy words and focus more on the central field of the language, at the same time men will hold new words easily. He also mentioned that woman have less vocabulary reserve compared to men. Jespersen also include that woman is linguistically quicker and better than man. However, Macaulay thinks this is a stereotype. On the other hand, Holmes provided examples to prove who talk more. At the beginning of her essay she raised a question that,