We can clearly see that by everyday language there is a difference between how a man speaks and how a woman speaks. But the data? They're all down to stereotypes.
First of all, establishing the difference between diverging and converging is important. Diverging in relation to spoken language is when a person carries on speaking as they always do, regardless of who they are speaking to. Converging, however, is when someone starts speaking like the person they're speaking to (whether it may be using an accent or dialogue). Stereotypically, women are the ones who converge the most. This is because they are the ones who want to make the person they're talking to feel more comfortable, and they want to accommodate them. Dissimilarly, men are more likely to diverge. This suggests that males are more confident in speech and do this 'hence to strengthen one's social identity' (as stated by Wikipedia).
So, we can conclude from this information that the Woman is the gender which empathises for people more. FACT: Woman have a DNA code to keep a community together, using language as a social gel. Hence why they are the ones which naturally converge, even if they don't know they're doing it.
Men, however are stereotypically the gender which projects confidence, so they therefore diverge more.
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