【正文】 ak, dependent and subordinate position. Gender differences in the language faithfully reflect the social reality. On the other hand , as a carrier of culture language is not only an important part of social consciousness but also the specific manifestations of the culture. In most traditional cultures, people expect women to be gentle, kind and perceptual and men to be strong, calm and decisive. There are different requirements for speaking style and speech acts of men and women in the society based on this starting point. Some linguists believe that men and women grow up in different sociolinguistic context of subcultures, they must learn their own behaviors and municative ways that are adapt to gender, this cultural background is an important factor of gender differences in the language.(1)physiological factors: The innate physiological differences of men and women determine language use of “men and women are different”. According to the latest medical research, the left hemisphere of the brain of a woman is much earlier than that of a man that determines women speak standard, fluent and emotional language. In addition the lung capacity of women are less than that of men so the sounds of women are soft and weak while while the male is rugged and powerful.(2) cultural and psychological factors: In any country and cultural beliefs, people have different expectations of gender roles and behavior thus female languages are ??cordial, courteous, kind while male languages are rough, arrogant, firm. This inherent social expectations bee a powerful social pressure forcing people to regulate their own behaviors in accordance with their respective gender patterns.(3) social factors: Language is a special kind of social phenomenon which is created from labor and has close relationship with activities of production. In the traditional concept of western, woman is just a rib of man ,she is subordinate to man. The men represent power, status, domination, etc, the social roles of women are decoration and embellishment. The traditional thinking seriously hinders the female perspective and has direct impact on the political and economic status of women. In this environment, female languages are identified as nonstandard or strong so women lack selfconfidence and like to rely on others when speaking. With the development of a society, some women go out to work and gain higher positions in certain sectors. There is no gap of personal ability between men and women. Social advancement and enhancement of the ability make women bee more and more confident. The gender differences in the English language gradually narrow but there are still arduous tasks and a long road to achieve equality. The gender differences in the English language are rooted in the lower social status of women and dependence on men.The society is an universe, men and women in it are materials , language is the role of various substances. In short, gender differences in the English language are closely linked with social factors, cultural factors and psychological factors. To some degrees it probes into the needs of the political, economic, cultural style and these factors restrict language use. The correct recognition and understanding of gender differences have significances for parole munication. It can guide the different gender students to learn to use authentic English to express their ideas for their own gender roles and understand language while enhancing the students39。 awareness of the culture of the target language.References[1]Fasold, sociolinguistics of language [M]. Cambridge:Blackwell,1999[2] Lakoff, Robin To lmach. Language and women’ s place [J] . Language in Society,1973(4).[3] [J].外國語,1983(6):15[4]Hirschman,L. 1973. Femalemale Differences in Conversational Interaction,[J] Paper[5] [J].外國語,1986(5):3336[6] Coats. Women, Men and Language[M]. Longman Inc, New York: Longman Inc,1986.[7] Loveday, , politeness and sexual role: an exploratory investigation into the pitch correlates of English and Japanese politeness formulae. Language and Speech, 1981(24):7187