A study in Researchs in the realm of the linguistics of gender

Linguistics of gender is a sub-discipline of sociolinguistics, which studies the impacts of gender on linguistic varieties. Since most socio-cultural concepts, including gender, are multidimensional concepts, mono-dimensional and absolute conceptions of such concepts lead to a kind of superficiality, especially in the realm of research. The primary objective of the paper is introducing various levels of the linguistics of gender, in other words, the different aspects of gender and linguistic issues. Then, on the basis of this theoretical framework, the condition of this newly-born discipline in Iranian researches is elaborated on. However, the discipline suffers from weaknesses which include having a non-methodological limited approach, ignoring the common gender theories, considering context as multiple and separate social variables and not as a network of relations, and considering men’s linguistic behavior as a norm.