Gender and speech style: context Bangladesh

Abstract

This study attempts to analyze conversation and find out if gender influences speech style in Bangladesh. Here, the focus is on, politeness, interruptions (the way speakers change, switch topics and speaker control), dominance and some other factors. For instance, how greetings, refusals, topic change etc. are connected to the social context. The whole research work will be done with an insight from the conversation analysis. The researcher recorded a conversation and encrypted it at the end of the paper.