Abstract
    
In the past thirty years, with the development of the sociolinguistics and anthropology, especially the rise of women’ s movement, the socio-pragmatic study on the gender differences in language has developed rapidly. Pioneering the research in the field, some western pragmatic scholars suggest five different perspectives to observe and explain gender differences in language: deficit, dominance, difference, politeness and constructionism. Even if they have been studied in this area for many years, this still is a new field in China. So there is an urgent need to add more data and researches to support the study of this field. This paper uses the concrete data of several surveys to analyze the differences of men and women when they talk to each other. Among the various communicative strategies in daily life, the article mainly chooses five important aspects to discuss: compliment, apology, addressing, invitation, and greetings. It also explores the causes of the differences by studying the five famous theories of western scholars.

Key words：gender difference,  socio-pragmatics, language, communicative strategy

摘要
    
随着社会语言学和人类学的发展，特别是妇女运动的兴起，语言性别差异的研究也随之快速发展起来。作为语言性别差异研究的先驱，一些西方国家的语用学家把它分为缺陷论，差异论，支配论，礼貌论和建构论五个方面。虽然语言性别差异的研究在西方引起了很多语言学家的兴趣，但其仍属于一个新兴的研究领域，急需数据研究支持。本文旨在从社会语用学角度对各种日常生活中所能用到的英语语言交流策略中的男女性别差异进行论述，分析及探索。为这一领域的研究贡献一份力量。

关键词：语言，性别差异， 社会语用学，交流策略