In this episode we talk about how gender influences the way people speak and communicate. We start with a study on the differences between men and women using signed languages like ASL, then talk about a few studies examining the differences in word choice between cis-men and cis-women, and end with an article on trans men and what people perceive as “gay sounding” speech in men.

Sources:

Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages edited by Ceil Lucas

Women, Men, and Language by Jennifer Coates

Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men by Lal Zimman