English Theorists

Robin Lakoff

Women are more likely to comply with grammatical rules

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Cameron and Coates

Speakers take turns and are more likely to contradict eachother

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Jennifer Coates

Women make well placed minimal responses. Men made them too late

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Zimmerman and West

Men interrupt/overlap with women more. Women kept being interrupted so spoke less

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Jenny Cheshire

Females using more standard form

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Deborah Tannen

Interruptions can be positive. Men use more imperatives

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Speakers take turns and are more likely to contradict eachother

Cameron and Coates

Women make well placed minimal responses. Men made them too late

Men interrupt/overlap with women more. Women kept being interrupted so spoke less

Females using more standard form

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