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Communication differs from one individual to another depending on his age and gender. There are gender differences in terms of using language, constructing sentences, and interacting.
Sociolinguistics is a discipline that takes into account gender as an essential variable and has established many theories for studying the difference between males and females in communicating. The norms that each society imposes on its members affect the position of males and females and, therefore, their behaviour, communication, and language use.
Some studies relate gender differences to the social position of males and females in their society. Men and women live in different worlds and, therefore, they have different cultures. These cultural differences are reflected in language and the way men and women communicate in their social interactions. These differences range from pronunciation or morphology to vocabulary. The attitudes of each speaker are directly related to societal stereotypes which become parts of society’s norms and direct its members’ views.