Investigative Piece Introduction

Hypothesis: "Women will express more feelings based ideas in written language than men, who will express more informative based language."

Introduction:

For my investigative piece I will be looking at the difference theory and how it is applied to modern day forms of communication. We can learn about how gender language stereotypes can be portrayed and represented by analysing the language use of each. There are many theories and hypotheses that can be tested within this aspect of language, however for this essay I will be focusing on the difference model. This consists of a series of six contrasts that display the most common ways that male and female speakers may differ. These are: status vs support, independence vs intimacy, advice vs understanding, information vs feelings, orders vs proposals and conflict vs compromise. With the data I have collected, I plan to base my findings on the hypothesis of information vs feelings in particular. To test this, I have collected a substantial and reliable amount of data including portions of social media accounts from a variety of British bloggers. To make the data fair and true, I took an equal amount of examples from three males and four females. From this I am able to compare and contrast the amount of information-type statuses compared to those that show feeling. For this hypothesis, perhaps the  most general theory is that men typically use more information messages and women use more feelings, and in this piece I will consider theories and ideas that both support and oppose this view.