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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.
- Aggressiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020