CHAPTER ONE

1.0  INTRODUCTION

Men and women are not only physically different; differences exist in the ways they converse too. Observations about the differences have long been made but restricted to only morphology in many languages. Feminist movement in 1960s observed that language is one of the tools for women oppression by men. Language usage reflects a patriarchal system and emphasizes male supremacy over females. Most works which analyse language use during conversations were produced by men. Labov’s work (1972a, 1972b) for instance describes mostly the speech of men. Conclusion that people speak based on their sex i.e. their gender affects the way they talk during conversation was reached. As a result, women researchers started looking at how linguistic codes are transmitted based  on gender in 1970s.

This project studies two texts, Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2004) and Yakoob Habib’s The ugly ones refuse to die (2012).

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