LIN 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 35: Subculture
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Women do more to facilitate the flow of conversations. Women are more likely than men to make utterances that demand or encourage responses from their fellow speaker and are therefore (more actively engaged insuring interaction with men. Women show a greater tendency to make a use of positive minimal responses especially, mm hmm and are more likely to insert such comments, though streams of talk rather than simply at the end. Adopt silent protest after they have been interrupted or have received a delayed minimal response. Women use you were to explicitly acknowledge the existence of the other speaker. Men are likely to interrupt speeches of their conversation partners and they interpret women. More likely to ignore comments of speak delayed minimal response and respond enthusiastic. Men use more mechanisms for controlling the topic of conversation including both topic development and the intro of new topics than men do.
