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"LANGUAGE AND GENDER" Introduction All of us have different styles of communicating with other people. Our style depends on a lot of things: where we're from, how and where we were brought up, our educational background, our age, and it also can depend on our gender. Generally speaking, men and women talk differently although there are changeable degrees of masculine and feminine speech characteristics in each of us. But men and women speak in particular ways frequently because those ways are associated with their gender. Language representations Language can act as a powerful source of discrimination. Since we rely on language to communicate with each other, the way we describe ourselves and others, or the way in which we address one another, can have a deep impact on our self-image and our relations with other people. If individuals or groups are labelled consciously or unconsciously in stereotyped ways, they often...

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