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| PinkCordelia Diglot Newbie Wales Joined 4812 days ago 31 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Welsh | Message 9 of 11 22 February 2013 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||
There's plenty of evidence that, in general conversation, women talk no more than men and that men are more likely to dominate and interrupt. As an English teacher I've had lots of A Level students (that's 18 year olds) conduct research projects on this including analysing general mixed sex conversations of their peers or TV/radio programmes with one male and one female presenter or panel discussions on TV programmes. The overwhelming majority have found male dominance and talking more to hold true. Whilst it appears true that women say more words in a typical day, this appears to be biased by the fact that women often look after children (and talk to them a lot) and also do a lot more work with people which again requires more communication than working with, say, an engine. That little girls are often chattier than little boys appears to also have a cultural basis in that studies have shown baby girls being spoken to four times as much as baby boys. Clearly little girls are designed to be spoken to in a civilised manner whilst boys are designed for bouncing around and having fun with. And it appears that the most enlightened of adults do this. I know that all such research deals with averages and snapshots in time but remember that male complaints about women talking too much are usually centred around concerns for power ... But I've said enough so I'll shut up now ;) 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 11 22 February 2013 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can't refer to anything but personal experience here, but I tend to adapt to the challenges I'm met with in daily life. Depending on the environment, I may talk nonstop or utter a few hundred words a day at the very most. When the situation changes rapidly, I experience a bit of lag for a couple of days and find it hard to suddenly talk so much/so little. Based on that experience I wouldn't be surprised if other people didn't also experience adaptation to a certain degree, and I would expect the environment as well as habituation and inborn factors to influence their communication style.
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