Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Research on language use and differences between male and female speech has quite a long tradition. Nevertheless, the topic is still intriguing, sometimes even scandalous, depending on the social and cultural context. The paper aims at better understanding of women’s talk and discovering subtle distinctions and characteristics of female conversations. It seeks to show how women communicate among friends, which characteristics they use and in what amount. The collection of texts is taken from the TV series “Sex and the City”. The initial hypothesis states that the most used characteristics of women’s talk in conversation among women is telling stories, but the results showed that the most used characteristics in conversations among women friends are questions / tag questions. Second most used characteristics is collaborative floor, and telling stories came in the third place. Keywords: gender studies, male and female speech, women, telling stories, sociolinguistics
Source: Mostariensia
Authors: Katarina Živković, Ivana Grbavac, Ivana Zovko-Bošnjak
Institution: University of Mostar
Language: English
Topic: Gender Studies in Language
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408801775