- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most non-New Yorkers, finding themselves within hearing range of strangers' conversation, think it's nice to pretend they didn't hear. But many New Yorkers think it's nice to toss in a relevant comment.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.
- Fascinating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birth order is fascinating, and it is forever.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020