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                           The literature shows that the term World Englishes was introduced by an Indian linguist Braj B. Kachru in 1985. The term get popularity when he presented his 3 concentric circle model of world Englishes. World Englishes can be defined as varieties of English language across the world, as we know today English has status of lingua Franca. So, people think that why don’t we have our own varieties of English language. These varieties are different from each other based on functional and formal features of World Englishes. There are many other factors like social and cultural elements also affect languages. As culture and language go side by side, these two things are inseparable. Similarly, now every country has its own English variety for example, Indian English, Pakistani English, Singaporean English, Nepali English and so on. In this regard there are different scholars who have pre...

  1.       Minimal responses : This is one of the key factors, minimal response can be defined as the use of “mhm” and “hmm”. Both males and females us these expressions differently, women tend to use this expression to set up the collaborative conversation whereas men use this response to show agreement or they might be less interested in the conversation. 2.       Tag questions : Women are frequent users of tag questions in their speech in fact, it is their favorite way to confirm the statement they want to make. Their aim is that they want to get attention from people. 3.       Turn-taking : It has been observed through many researches that women less break the rule of turn-taking as compare to men. Women are more likely to give a chance to another speaker to present their point of view but male often stuck to their own point and they don’t give chance to other for presenting their point of view. 4. ...

                 The literature shows that language and gender have been a very important topic of discussion in the field of sociolinguistics linguistics. Since the 1990s the subject of male and female speaking differently becomes a matter of fact as “man is from mars and women are from Venus”. So, they use language differently from each other. Women love to talk but man resists it. It is not a fallacy that language is influenced by gender, but it is just because both men and women are various kinds of creation naturally, there are many similarities as well as dissimilarities in the speech of both genders.            Gender plays a very significant role in language because men and women’s speech show wherefrom they belong, their habitual actions, their way of expressing their emotions, and so on. In regard of sex and gender, the British sociologist Giddens (1989) describes as sex indicates biological d...

            English has been spread all around the world. In Asia it was spread due to colonialization of British Raj, as the most countries of Asia like India and Pakistan were the colonies of British empire. Later, it was spread by the prominence of America in world affairs.            English in Asia is very important nowadays. Moreover, it is working language of global communication across the continent. According to report round about 350 million people use English for different purposes across the region. English becomes very popular in Asian countries due to effects of colonialization. As we all are non-native speakers of English language, so we feel comfortable when we are communicating with each other.            In Asia now, English is not considered as a linguistics imperialism rather they own English language. Asian shows positive attitude for English as their own languag...