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By Ashia Begum Candidate Number: 5541 Centre Number: 15247 A2/English Language Coursework Total Word Count: 3,659 Is there a difference between male and female conversational styles in today's society? Introduction Is there a difference between male and female conversational styles in today's society? My aim is to analyse whether the theories proposed by linguists that men are more dominant than women are in fact true of seventeen year olds today, or whether they are outdated due to changes in society e.g. gender roles and stereotypes. I have chosen this particular area of study as I find the way in which linguists categorise "gender talk" to be very intriguing. Gender differences are demonstrated in the way that males and females interact with each other during a conversational situation. It is a stereotyped belief that women talk a lot more than men; however some researchers (Fishman) have found that men talk twice as much as women in a mixed-sex conversation. Women are said to take a more co-operative...

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