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Publication details [#26133]

Hirschman, Lynette. 1994. Female-male differences in conversational interaction. Language in Society 23 (3) : 427–442.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | men's language | women's language

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study analyzes female-male interactions in order to isolate quantifiable entities that relate to the control or the direction over the conversation. The examined issues are frequency, fluence and confidence of talk and interruptions and indications of support, agreement or disagreement.