【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 nk he is strange and abnormal. Hedges and FillersHedges are cautious notes expressed about how an utterance is to be taken. The italicized phrases in utterances like,(4) It is sort of hot in here.(5) I guess that man over there is her father.(6) It seems like you are in a good mood.All belong to hedges. In singlegender talks, women use more hedges than men do, they often use some vague words, such as, “I think”, “You know”, “I mean”, and some sound pause.Fillers refer to the words or phrases that are used to redeem silent situation, such as: “er”, “well”, “um”, “you know”, “l(fā)et me see”. In daily munication, women use more frequently fillers than men. Colloquialism and Professional WordsSaying spoken English, swearing foul language in most cases is from the mouth of men, such as “Damn it”, “Damn” or “Shit”. Women rarely used them。 they tend to use some weak words as “Oh dear”, “Good Heavens”, and “thank Goodness”.In people’s daily life, men and women often talk about different topics, they care about different things, and have different hobbies, and so they use different professional words. Such as: women care about their innerword, personal mood, living interests more than men, so emotional words often appear in their speech. On contrary, men often use words in relation to policy, economy, sports, machine, wine, and car and so on. Syntactic StructureBesides vocabulary difference, syntactic difference also is an aspect of showing gender differences. Women prefer to use tag questions to express a personal point of view, on the one hand, people want to listen to their views, on the other hand, the tone of uncertainty weaken their views of power, ease the tough tone of rude, but also a polite argument. Men in general, rarely used antitag question, which are often used in declarative and imperative sentences. So the next part will show the topic in imperative sentences, declarative sentences, and tagquestions. Declarative and Imperative SentenceIn daily life, declarative sentence is a kind of mon sentence style, which is used by different people with different aims and ways. Women are used to using more statement question like “Dinner will be ready at five o’clock?” (With a rising intonation at the end), while men often use more statement like “It will be useful.” This can also be seen when women convey apologies, they always say: “I am sorry, excuse me. I beg your pardon? Pardon me?” This kind of intonation is more intimate, kinder.Imperative sentences are used to give orders, mands or directives. The traditional men’s are concerned with positions of ordergiving or directivegiving, so it is the preferred speech pattern by male.(Coates. 1986) Coates makes an experiment among the group of boys and girls who play together in a street. Here goes the example,(7) Michael: Give me the pliers. (Lily gives pliers to Michael)(8) Huey: Get off my steps. (Lily moves down steps)Michael, the group leader, is more likely to use explicit mands a lot. In these examples, the man speakers like many orders as swearing words. Instead, girls like to use pronouns like we, or let’s into the scope of operations. Tag QuestionsLakoff stated the main difference between male and female in syntactic style lies in the use of tag questions. Women speakers tend to get some from listeners’ cooperation or support. And it is a strategy that women use to keep the conversation smooth. Fishman analyzes most women will use the questions as to ensure a way of conversation continues too, but for most men, they use question seems only to obtain information just.(Fishman. 1980) Men like to express the tone of direct mand and requires. So that more women are more tactful in munication than men.“A tag midway between an outright statement and a yesno question。 it is less assertive than the former, but more confident than the latter. It is polite to leave a decision open, not impose your mind, view, and claims on anyone else.” (Coates, Jennifer. 1986) Difference in ContentBesides the two aspects, gender differences between male and female speech also illustrates i