In mixed sex conversations men are more likely to interrupt that women.
This study had a small sample size and has since been disproved.
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Beattie
He disproved Zimmerman and West's study, by finding that women and men interrupted with more or less equal frequency.
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Deborah Tannen
Men vs. Women
Status vs. Support
Independence vs. Intimacy
Advice vs. Understanding
Information vs. Feelings
Orders vs. Proposals
Conflict vs. Compromise
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Peter Trudgill
Men were less likely and women were more likely to use the prestige pronunciation of certain speech sounds.
Men would often seek covert prestige to seem 'tough' or 'down to earth'.
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Jennifer Coates
All-women conversations
House talk - the exchange of information
Scandal - judging the behaviours of others (other women in particular)
Bitching - expression of a woman's anger, only expressed in private. They do not expect change, just that their anger will be understood and expected
Chatting - the most intimate form of gossip, a mutual self-disclosure.They use their skills they have learnt when nurturing others
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Deborah Cameron
Women have been instructed in the proper ways of talking, just as they have in other 'feminine' kinds of behaviour. This is described as 'verbal hygiene'.
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Dominance approach
Women are a repressed group and language differences are a reflection of men's dominance and women's subordination (lower in status) in society.
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Difference approach
Women and men belong to different sub-cultures and the language differences are an expression of each group's different life experiences.
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