1) Women's words
-relate to womens specific interests e.g sewing terms and fine colour words such as lavender
adjectives- either neutral or woman only e.g: neutral= great, cool e.g: woman only= sweet lovely
weak expletives instead of shear words e.g 'oh dear' instead of '****'
intensifiers- 'I like him so much'
2) Women's grammar
- tag questions- 'its hot in here isnt it?'-> inforces uncertainty
- hedges- 'kind of', 'sort of'
- hypercorrect grammar- comply with grammatical rules e.g by avoiding double negatives such as 'i didnt have none'
3) Innotation
- rise of innotation (Q: when shall we eat?...A: oh, in about half an hour. (this implies weakness and uncertainty)
- speaking in italics- use exaggerated innotation and stress for emphasis 'i really wish you wouldnt do that'
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