This study was intended to determine whether men and women were represented differently withrnrespect to the use of minimal responses, ask ing question s, super polite forms and hedges in thernmale and female author novels ofTigrigna written in the past there decades with a soc io politicalrntheme of the then situation of the co untry Ethi op ia in general and the present National RegionalrnState of Tigray. In conducting the stud y, R. Lakofrs (1975) ideas co ncern ing linguisticrndifferences between males and females were taken into account. In order to gather the mostrnnatural-I ike data, I male authored and 3 female authored dialogues of the nove ls with a sociornpolitical as wel l as a fa mily and social theme were by design selected from the literature ofrnTigrigna amongst all the scenarios written with in the last about thirty years. In all , 4,547rnutterances were studi ed. The data were then divided into fo ur major groups: ( I) cross gender andrnsame author, (2) same gender and cross author; (3) cross gender and cross author; and (4) crossrnauthor data. The results of the 24 Chi -squares computed shown not signifi cant differencernbetween the groups on the use of minimal responses, asking questions, super polite forms as wellrnas hedged in most of the scenarios. What makes the resu lt not uniform is the case of the crossrngender and same authors' scenario, for the chi-square computed in the male authors contextrnshow that insignificant relationship for super polite form s. Again the ch i-square computed for thernfemal e author scenario show that the relat ionsh ip is insignificant for the lingui st ic devices ofrnminimal responses, super polite forms and hedges. Except for cross gender and same authorrnscenariO the findin gs of the study confirm that Lakofrs opinion regarding gender-boundrnlanguage at least in the three areas and the corpus inspected in this resea rch