Yet the important fact we must recognise is that women and men do
not speak separate languages. Most of the works following Lakoff are
empirical studies, which generally implies that the findings are ‘scientific’.
However the problem in both approaches, first of all, lies in their
assumption: these works have been based on the ‘Lakoff hypothesis’
which is itself unjust against women. That is to say, the majority of
researchers of both the dominance and difference approaches
automatically hypothesise the same thing -- ‘there is ‘women’s language’
which is different from men’s language, and all women talk in the same
way’.