The document discusses gender differences in communication styles. It notes that men interrupt others more than women and women get interrupted more than men. It also notes that women provide more positive feedback and encouragement during conversations than men. Specific examples are given of conversations where the man interrupts the woman multiple times but she continues the discussion, and of a conversation where the woman provides short responses like "Mm" and "Right" to encourage the other woman to continue speaking.

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2. Less forcefully Swore much more
Ask more questions More blunt and to-the-point
Encourage other to speak Interrupt more
Use more instance like you and we Challenge, dispute, and ignore more
Do not protest as much as men when
they are interrupted
Try to control the topic discussed,
and inclined to make categorical
statement

3. UNCERTAINTY
WOMEN’S
LANGUAGE
POLITENESS
TRIVIAL
LACK OF
CONFIDENCE

4. Lexical Hedges or
Filler
•you know, sort of, well,
you see
Tag question
• she’s very nice, isn’t she?
Rising intonation
on declaratives
• it’s really good?

5. Empty
adjectives
•divine, charming, cute
Precise
colour terms
•magenta, aquamarine
Intensifiers
•just, so ; I like him so much
•Hypercorrect grammar

6. Superpolite
forms
•indirect requests,
euphemisms
Avoidance of
strong swear
words
•fudge, my goodness.
Emphatic stress
•it was a BRILLIANT
performance

7.  Interrupting Behavior
It has been found that men interrupt others
more than women do and women got
interrupted more than men.
Therefore, interruption is something men do
to women practically never do to men.

8. For example:
Woman: How’s your paper coming?
Man : Alright I guess. I haven’t done much in the past
two weeks.
Woman: Yeah. Know how that can
Man : Hey you got an extra cigarette?
Woman : Oh uh sure like my pa
Man : How about a match?
Woman: Here you go uh like my pa
Man : Thanks
Woman : Sure. I was gonna tell you my
Man : Hey I’d really like to
talk but I gotta run. See you.
Woman : Yeah.

9.  Conversational Feedback
According to American studies, women do
the more positive feedback to the
conversational partner better than men do.

10. For example:
Mary : I worked in that hotel for - ah eleven years and I
found the patrons were really really you know good.
Jill : Mm.
Mary : You had the odd one or two ruffian’d come in and
cause a fight but they were soon dealt with.
Jill : Right. Really just takes one eh? To start trouble.
Mary : Yeah, and it was mostly the younger ones.
Jill : Mm.
Mary : That would start you know.
Jill : Yeah.
Mary : The younger ones could not handle their booze.
Jill : Mm.