ozarque ([info]ozarque) wrote,
@ 2007-01-29 07:38:00
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Recommended link; linguistics and gender and rhetoric....
This recommendation is probably not needed -- but you never know. Just in case you weren't planning to read Language Log today, therefore.... Please don't miss Mark Liberman's "A Lesson in the Sweet Science," all about which gender talks more and how not to be pinned down to ghastly admissions in an interview, at http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004110.html#more .

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[info]maggieno
2007-01-30 05:06 am UTC (link)
Oh, that's an interesting break down of an interview!

My mom would throw up her hands at any claims that women out-talk men. We ran a neighborhood tavern from the late 1940s till the late 1960s, a working class tavern where the men stopped by on their way home from work and where the whole family came down on Saturdays so the parents could visit with other parents while the kids played pool or the bowling game.

Mom informed me in no uncertain terms that men yakked as much as any women she had known, and that they gossiped as much as well. She agreed with those who observed that women were judged as "talking too much" because they talked at all.

About the only difference in social communications that mom would support was that the men seemed to get over spats more quickly than women. They'd get angry, cuss the other guy out, not socialize together for a night or two, then soon enough, throw up their hands, buy each other a drink, and go back to being friendly. Mom observed that the women she knew, and who came to the tavern, held their grudges much longer.

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