Abstract
The article focuses on studying male and female speech behaviour in two national variants of English – British and American – and research in realizing the rich potential of meanings developing in modern English dialogue discourse. The analysis is not only based on functional and pragmatic approach to language study but also centers on modern trends in cognitive linguistics. The latest achievements of this area of linguistics are determined by the fact that appearance of various functional meanings of tags in dialogue discourse is highly dependent on sociocultural, cognitive, gender, psychological and a number of other factors.
Highlights
At present, the term “gender” is widespread in academic literature with the meaning of “correlation of sexes”
The term “gender” is widespread in academic literature with the meaning of “correlation of sexes”. The interest in this notion can be explained mostly by the fact that over the past 20 years human society reconsidered the interpretation of social organization of gender
A specific feature of the first stage of gender research development – biological determinism – was recognition of the fact that psychological, cultural, behavioral and intellectual differences between men and women as well as peculiarities of their speech behavior were determined by their biological sex
Summary
The term “gender” is widespread in academic literature with the meaning of “correlation of sexes” The interest in this notion can be explained mostly by the fact that over the past 20 years human society reconsidered the interpretation of social organization of gender. Two stages in gender research development process can be distinguished: biological determinism and gender research proper Between these two stages, many linguists contemplate a short period of initial accumulation of facts which questioned the dependence of gender category on biological peculiarities of the sexes. Many linguists contemplate a short period of initial accumulation of facts which questioned the dependence of gender category on biological peculiarities of the sexes Scientists call this period transitional (Kirillina, 1998). The research had no connection with the data of other sciences; it was of purely descriptive character as it was entirely based on observing separately taken facts
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