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Abstract
The studies of differences in language used by males and females appear mainly to have been focused on the spoken word and rarely on writing. This paper examines some linguistic differences that exist in male and female writing styles of Arabic novels. Some classes of lexical and syntactic features that identify the author’s gender are specified. The paper finds significant differences in the frequent use of some features such as colour, tag questions, verb vs. noun in initiating paragraphs, slang, taboo and euphemistic terms. inparticular, males tend to use many more nouns in initial paragraphs compared to females who tend to use fewer of this category. Females are more conservative in using sex-related words whether implicitly or explicitly. Females generally speaking seem to be more atten-tive and more likely to pay specific attention to detail, which in turn influences their style. Finally, anoticeable correlation between the characteristics of male-female writing and the literary genre (novel) is demonstrated. The source material consists of two modern novels written by amale and afemale, who are native speakers of Arabic and considered as canonical figures by some Arab and Jordanian critics.
Highlights
A major topic in socio-linguistics is the connection between structures, vocabularies, phonology, morphology and ways of using particular language by the men and women who speak and write such languages
Taboo Terms One stereotypical belief concerning male and female language use is that taboo language is mostly used by males
Noun versus Verb Initiating Paragraph The analysis shows that the male novelist prefers starting his paragraphs with nominal sentences that start with nouns or pronouns
Summary
A major topic in socio-linguistics is the connection between structures, vocabularies, phonology, morphology and ways of using particular language by the men and women who speak and write such languages. Do men and women who speak and write a particular language use it in different ways and styles? The possible differences in linguistic styles between males and females have motivated considerable socio-linguistic research over the years. Human beings seem to have a natural tendency to divide things into pairs: good/bad, light/dark, subject/object and so on It is not surprising that the male-female dichotomy on the basis of their language pattern use, in general, constitutes two different categories. Expression the women have words and phrases which the men never use, or they would be laughed to scorn It happens that in their conversations it often seems as if the women had another language than the men” Research in Britain, America and New Zealand reveals similar gender-based patterns of discourse
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