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Publication details [#35423]

Mulac, Anthony. 1989. Men's and women's talk in same-gender and mixed-gender dyads: Power or polemic? Journal of Language and Social Psychology 8 (3/4) : 249–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | power | problem solving | women's vs. men's language

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines differences in men's and women's talk in same- and mixed-gender dyads, regarding amount of talk, mean length of utterance, and rate. It is suggested that gender differences in talk behavior are consistent with the appearance of power.