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Sunderland
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J.S
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2006
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Language and Gender
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Oxon
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Routledge
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Dale Spender researched mixed sex conversations and found
that ‘men dominate the conversation, interrupt their conversational partners
and are more successful at having the topics they bring up, taken up.’ I would
test thing by observing mixed sex conversations in 3 different situations with
varied context, one being a debate in the House of Commons, another in a busy
supermarket between staff members and the other between a mother and father in
their home.
http://www.npu.edu.ua/!e-book/book/djvu/A/iif_kgpm_0415311039.pdf
http://www.npu.edu.ua/!e-book/book/djvu/A/iif_kgpm_0415311039.pdf
I like the idea of the different contexts but this is quite a small investigation. To make your findings meaningful, you probably need to focus on one sort of conversation and have more examples of it to minimise the effects of anomalies.
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