The comparative study of linguistic form in the speech of men and women in "Oliver Twist"

الملخص EN

This research was intended to determine whether men and women were different with respect the use intensifiers hedges and tag questions to conduct the study, R.

lakoff's (1975) : 4 ideas concerning linguistic differences between males and females were taken into account .

In order to gather the most natural –like data, were randomly selected from the famous English novel " Oliver Twist " The data were then analyzed utterance by utteransce.

The resuit of analysis showed no significant difference between the qroups on the use of intensifiers, hedged and tag questions.

The findings of study did not confirm lakff"s opinion regarding gender-bound language at least in the three areas and the corpus inspected in this research.