Desperate Housewives is an American teleplay which was broadcast by American Broadcasting Company in 2004. It describes the married life and some humorous stories about housewives who live on Wisteria Lane. In this teleplay, the talk has its unique features during the housewives, so it is worthy of studying. The thesis takes the Desperate Housewives as an object of study and from stylistic aspect to analysis and study the female language. Though the analysis, the conclusion is following: females tend to use intensifiers words, in vocabulary aspects; and in syntactical aspects, females like to use hedges, tag questions. And in grammar aspect, elliptical sentences and inverted sentences are quite popular among females.
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