Modern research (difference theory)
- Created by: BethScott
- Created on: 19-04-15 11:57
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- Deborah Tannen (1992)
- Topic raising, interrupting & reinforcing
- Women
- Do more work in convos to raise topics & to get others to take them up
- Use reinforcers to maintain other's contributions
- Their contributions are less likely to be heard - allow men to 'take the floor'
- Make more effort and downplay own subject knowledge
- Men
- Compete to control topics - interrupt if necessary
- Appear to interrupt women more
- Appear to interrupt women more
- Compete to control topics - interrupt if necessary
- Women
- Reporting and rapporting
- Women
- Complain that men don't give enough information when they recount incidents
- Pay more attention to the 'meta message'
- Recounting experiences is a way to relate to the listener (RAPPORTING)
- Men
- Complain women give too much info when telling stories
- Concentrate on the content alone
- See recounting incidents as REPORTING
- Men and women think their doing different things when they relay information
- Women
- Problem solving & problem sharing
- Respond differently in convos when a problem is presented
- Women
- Are encouraged to think of themselves as listeners
- 'Trouble-talks' often take turns comparing difficulties & finding likenesses between their respective situations
- Are encouraged to think of themselves as listeners
- Men
- Trained to be active & find solutions to problems
- Adopt a problem - solution approach when someone articulates personal difficulties
- 'Trouble-talks' appear o be reassured by their male friend's making light or dismissing their worries as insignificant
- Trained to be active & find solutions to problems
- Women
- Respond differently in convos when a problem is presented
- Suggests male & female convos result in difficulty as men think they are simply exchanging info, while women think they're negotiating
- Topic raising, interrupting & reinforcing
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