Conversational Topic as a Function of Role and Gender

Haas, Adelaide; Sherman, Mark A.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1982.51.2.453

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“…The pattern of gender similarities and differences for the five topic areas resembles those observed in ethnographic, survey, and experimental research conducted with a variety of samples, including college students and their parents (Aries, 1976;Aries & Johnson, ]983; Johnson & Aries, 1983), the general population (Haas & Sherman, 1982), blue-collar workers' families (Kornarovsky, 1962), British miners' families (Klein, 1965), and villagers in France and Spain (Harding, 1975;Reiter, 1975).…”

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“…Despite the considerable attention that gender differences in topic choice have received since 1922, most recent studies do not provide quantitative data about conversations held in natural settings. Rather, they give ethnographic descriptions of conversation topics (Klein, 1965;Harding, 1975;Reiter, 1975), rely on self-reports of topics (Komarovsky, 1967;Haas & Sherman, 1982;Aries & Johnson, 1983;Johnson & Aries, 1983), or study conversations held by groups formed in a controlled setting (Aries, 1976). In this paper, a replication of Moore's study is presented that allows a test of the hypotheses he posed.…”

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Gender differences in conversation topics, 1922?1990

Bischoping

1993

Sex Roles

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Gender differences in conversation topicsIn 1922, Henry T. Moore walked up and down Broadway in the evening for several weeks, gathering fragments of overheard conversations. His research was motivated by similarities in the psychological test scores of the sexes that he felt ran counter to both "common sense and universal experience" (1922, p. 210). Moore observed that when women conversed with women, the majority of the conversations were about persons of the opposite sex or about

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Gender differences in conversation topics, 1922?1990

Bischoping

1993

Sex Roles

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“…The list of topics (Appendix) had been drawn up after consulting the literature on conversational topics in males and females (Bischoping, 1993;Haas, 1979;Haas & Sherman, 1982;Johnson & Aries, 1983;Kipers, 1987;Sehulster, 2006) and brainstorming with students in a research class on speech and gender.…”

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“…A number of later studies confirmed that there are gender differences in conversational topics. Haas and Sherman (1982) asked 110 men and 166 women how often they discussed each of 22 topics with same-sex friends, co-workers, siblings, parents and children. While the most frequent topic in each role was the same for both sexes (''the other sex'' with friends, ''work'' with co-workers and ''family'' with siblings, parents, and children), there were also substantial differences in popularity of topics.…”

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Conversational topics in transsexual persons

Borsel

Cayzeele

Heirman

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Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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In general, speech language therapy for transsexual persons focuses on pitch and pitch variation and more recently also on resonance. Other communicative aspects are dealt with far less often, especially language. This study investigated to what extent conversational topics might need attention in therapy for transsexual persons. A total of 111 males, 116 females, 28 male-to-female and 18 female-to-male transsexuals were asked to indicate on a list with 34 topics how often they speak about each topic (never, sometimes, often) in conversations with males, with females and in a gender mixed group. Results showed that transsexual persons behave in accordance with the desired gender. However, they also tend to adopt a position depending on the gender of their conversational partner. It can be concluded that in general it is not necessary to pay attention to conversational topics in therapy for transsexual persons.

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“…In this case, speakers who can explain topics which related to our real life, they will easily control the topic. Haas and Sherman (1982) report that women tend to talk about topics related to personal matters and the things about daily life. On the other hand, men tend to talk about money, news, and everything about sports (pp.…”

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Conversational Styles and Misunderstanding in Cross-Sex Conversations in He’s Just Not That into You Movie

Aryani

2016

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Conversation is a social interaction among societies. In this case, gender differences in daily communication lead to men's and women's different point of views in performing styles of the conversations. Misunderstanding is likely to occur in crosssex conversations when the idea or thought are understood differently by men and women. This study was intended to analyze the use of conversational styles by men and women and also investigate the misunderstanding phenomena that happened in cross-sex conversations. The researcher identified that the conversational styles used by Alex as a male character in the cross-sex conversations were qualifiers, controlling the topics, verbal fillers, intensifiers, swear words, compound requests, tag questions, questions, interruptions, overlapping, and talk domination. Meanwhile, Gigi, as a female character used qualifiers, controlling the topics, verbal fillers, intensifiers, swear words, tag questions, questions, interruptions, overlapping, talk domination, and silence. In answering the second question, the researcher discovered factors that affected the misunderstanding in the cross-sex conversations between Alex and Gigi were involvement versus independence and message versus metamessage.

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Conversational Topic as a Function of Role and Gender

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Gender differences in conversation topics, 1922?1990

Gender differences in conversation topics, 1922?1990

Conversational topics in transsexual persons

Conversational Styles and Misunderstanding in Cross-Sex Conversations in He’s Just Not That into You Movie

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