A study of gender-related differences in introductory letters

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It could be assumed that after having read many letters of personal style, most of us would develop "some sort of sense", as to which letters are written by men and which are written by women. This hints that it is possible that there are differences in the way women and men use the English language in introductory letters. Some features that are supposed to distinguish women's speech are the use of specialized vocabulary, expletives, 'empty' adjectives, tag questions, intonation, 'superpolite' forms, hedges, hypercorrect grammar and joke- telling and humor. Furthermore, women's speech is believed to be more powerless than the language of men and it is assumpted that women tend to deal with private topics more than men do. Naturally, the question is whether these features and assum...