A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON WOMEN’S TALK IN THE TV SERIES “SEX AND THE CITY”

Research on language use and differences between male and female speech has quite a long tradition. Nevertheless, the topic is still intriguing, sometimes even scandalous, depending on the social and cultural context. The paper aims at better understanding of women’s talk and discovering subtle distinctions and characteristics of female conversations. It seeks to show how women communicate among friends, which characteristics they use and in what amount. The collection of texts is taken from the TV series “Sex and the City”. The initial hypothesis states that the most used characteristics of women’s talk in conversation among women is telling stories, but the results showed that the most used characteristics in conversations among women friends are questions / tag questions. Second most used characteristics is collaborative floor, and telling stories came in the third place. Keywords: gender studies, male and female speech, women, telling stories, sociolinguistics