Although the difference in language between men and women has been widely discussed, most of the literature on the subject concentrates on two main theories. The first is the “dominance approach” (supported by Lakoff 1975; Fishman 1983), which claims that the difference in language between men and women is a consequence of male dominance and female subordination. In this view, women are a suppressed minority group. Supporters of the “difference approach” (Coates 1986; Tannen 1990), on the other hand, believe that men and women belong to different subcultures and that any linguistic differences can be attributed to cultural differences.
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