Gender and Semantic Interpretation

The views that gender and language are related each other has been reviewed from at least
two different disciplines: sociolinguistics and psychology. From the first discipline, it has
been concluded that gender and language has no natural relationship for it is cultural values
that shape genderlect. From the second discipline, it has been concluded that gender and
language has natural relationship for different gender has different brain architecture.
However, still, these views tend to focus more on the language production. Viewed from
language comprehension, specified to semantic interpretation, this research involved 60
participants (30 males and 30 females) randomly taken from various affiliations with age
ranged from 18-32 years old. 30 questions concerning semantic interpretation which are
divided into entailment, presupposition, and basic syllogism are given. The result confirms
various theories about ‘gendered-brain’ especially lateralization theory. This research has
concluded that there is a natural relationship between gender and semantic interpretation.