GENDER FEATURES OF BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN ECONOMISTS’ SPEECH PORTRAIT

This article is devoted to topical gender issue and its influence on the speech. The author investigates how men and women economists can influence the society by means of language and what features are peculiar to their speech. In this article speeches of different economists, men and women, Britons and Australians, were studied. Studying this matter is remarkable as it helps to describe and find out certain characteristics in public statements in different English-speaking countries. The importance of this research is explained by the considerable interest to the ability to explain our own thought, and ways to control people by means of a conversation. Speech acts, used in set speeches and presentations are different for men and women, and they have their own unique character. According to the results of this research, we can conclude that the gender criterion is universal (nor completely social, neither completely personal). Therefore, it can't be considered as the only distinctive feature for female and male economists.  

In conclusion, we can say that any language is under the influence of many factors. Women in a communicative act easily switch, change roles in the process of communication. Men, on the other hand, have difficulties in changing topics of conversation, taking a great interest in the topic under discussion; they do not react to remarks that are not related to it.