language and gender

various sociolinguistic researches have explored that women regardless of other social characteristics. Such as class, age etc. use more standard forms of language than men. It is also claimed that this pattern of sex differentiations is so ubiquitous in western societies today that one could look at women's speech to determine which forms carry prestige in a community and conversely at men's to find out which are stigmatized. While many reasons such as women's alleged greater status consciousness and concern for politeness have been put forward to try to explain these results, they have never satisfactorily accounted for generally women appear to use language that expresses more uncertainity than men, suggesting less confidence in what they say. Men have been reported to inturrupted more than women and to use stronger expletives while the latter use more polite forms. Gender differences in the use of english are subtle. Nonetheless notions of men;s and women's language use abound. Men are said to swear a lot to be more coarse and csual studies claim that American women know more color terms and men know tool names, that women use more qualities and more likely than men to end  declarative sentence with a rise pitch.