“Genderlects” refers to linguistic gender differences in the United States, where

Question

a. women’s speech tends to be cooperative in character
b. women engage in “report-talk,” while men engage in “rapport-talk”
c. women emphasize establishing a place in the competitive social hierarchy
d. men tend to engage more often than women do in “active listening”
e. women tend to use more qualifiers than men in their speech, making it difficult to converse

Answer 1

ANSWER:
a