【正文】 。 awareness of the culture of the target language.References[1]Fasold, sociolinguistics of language [M]. Cambridge:Blackwell,1999t it?” “ They caught the robber last week, didn39?！癐’m very sorry, but……”. As a kind of informal term, slang is often considered as men’s territory, eg: With one’s pants down. Males are willing to say : “you caught me with my pants down”, it won’t be appropriate for women to say that.Oscar Wilde said: women are charming, they may never want to say anything, it was enough to make ecstasy swing soul if they said.” The longstanding ritual practices show that women should be gentle, demure and prudent, so women must always pay attention to their demeanor and use graceful and standardized languages , otherwise they will lack selfcultivation. Therefore, in this social atmosphere women should speak in a soft, gentle sound. Women mental age are earlier than males’ before puberty which makes their understanding of interpersonal relationships and psychology deeper than males. After puberty, males are brave to risk, women are gentle and delicate. These different psychological characteristics determine that there are obvious differences in language style.(1) males’ words are more succinct and direct. An American sociolinguist had ever said that the discourse of women are politer than females’ words because the expressions of women are less confident than males’, women always like to express their views adding You know, I think, I guess or I39。Since the 1960s, the gender differences in sociolinguistics has made remarkable achievements. On the one hand, the study of the phenomenon of language gender differences contribute to a more reasonable explanation of the intricacies of the language phenomenon and to improve the accuracy of the research. On the other hand, it establishes a gender patterns based on the analysis of the language to successfully reveal the relationship between gender differences and class differences and enrich the connotation of the theory of language variation. Specifically it studies choices of language forms and expression by the speaker for the sake of gender differences. As an emerging linguistic variety, it has a parameter identification of applied sociolinguistic[1].The differences of voice and intonation: From a physiological point of view, the vocal organs of men and women are different. The vocal cords of males are longer and thicker than that of females which lead to gender difference in voice quality. The gender differences of English voice quality is a linguistic phenomenon with social marker from a cultural perspective. The nasalization has a rough, vulgar implication that is not appropriate for females because the females’ behaviors should be graceful. Pitch refers to the frequency of the sound when the vocal cords vibrate. The vocal cords of men are long and thick, the pronunciation of average pitch is lower than the females. Generally speaking, the man39。 male。Gender Differences in the English Language from A Perspective of Sociolinguistics 2012812059 楊光AbstractLanguage is a symbol system closely related to human life. Gender language, as a social variant of language, with its characteristics and differences, has attracted increasing attention from a great many linguists at home and abroad. The characteristics and differences of the language use between male and female are distinctive. Men and women are the subjects of social activities, language is an important tool of human social activities. The socialization of gender roles leads to the differences of gender in using language. The gender differences in English language have distinctive linguistic characteristics and actual presentations in terms of pronunciations, intonation, vocabulary and syntax from the perspective of sociolinguistics. Through a descriptive and parative analysis of the language differences between males and females, we tries to find out the causes of formation of gender differences in English language fr