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Hypothesis I believe that women are less threatening and more polite in conversation with members of the opposite sex than men. I believe that the female 'host' of the television show in my study, will exhibit more sympathetic speech by using parataxis, which is the use of connected main clauses, and other features that researchers such as Deborah Tannen have associated with female speech. Introduction I decided to study the differences between male and female speech because I am interested in gender differences that I have studied in my course. This investigation is intended to prove my hypothesis, to do this I have decided to take two television talk show hosts, one male, and one female. The shows are aired at around the same time and would attract the same audience. By analysing the conversations of the talk show hosts I can define if the female host is more polite and less threatening...

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