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ABSTRACT
Language is the communication tool which humans in different communities use in communicating. The investigation of this study is on language use and the focus of the work is to know if there is any difference in the use of language based on sex, the effect of conversation in same sex and mixed sex. This research hopes to achieve this purpose through the examination and analysis of their spoken and written forms of language and to reveal the importance of interruption during conversation in Yoruba land. The researcher adopts observation method techniques, whereby methods of data collection were gotten from conversations in different setting using personal observation. Relevant literature were reviewed, some of which provided valuable facts for this work, secondary data were gathered from different settings who are indigenes of the language of study via audio-recorded, five conversations were gathered and analyzed via the language and sex theory which fits in well. The result in the study demonstrates that both women and men use dominance – related and rapport – related interruptions. Finally, With regards to sex difference, according to the study no reliable conclusion can be drawn that men are indeed more likely to use interruption to dominate interruption than are women
