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      • Women are typically the experts in “rapport talk” which refers to the types of communication that build, maintain, and strengthen relationships. Rapport talk reflects skills of talking, nurturing, emotional expression, empathy, and support. Men are typically the experts in task accomplishment and addressing questions about facts.
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  1. Women are more inclined to face each other and make eye contact when talking, while men are more likely to look away from each other. Men tend to jump from topic to topic, but women tend to talk at length about one topic.

  2. Nov 17, 2015 · Wherever men and women interact, confusion seems to be a recurring theme. The basic differences in our natures, needs, and motivations require us to take special care in all our male-female...

  3. Dec 15, 2016 · Men and women both use minimal responses such as ‘mmm,’ ‘yeah’ and ‘oh,’ but women use them more as a way of showing support and encouragement, while men tend to use them as a way of...

  4. Mar 1, 2016 · I have spent more than three decades collecting and analyzing thousands of examples of how women and men interact and have found that men’s talk—both voice-to-voice and through social...

    • Deborah Tannen
  5. Most interactions between men and women occur in the structural context of roles or status relationships that are unequal. These status and power differences create very real interaction effects, which are often confounded with gender.

  6. Is gender really that important in defining the way people interact with each other? Can men and women learn to change and adapt their styles? Haven’t we been this way forever?

  7. Nov 8, 2018 · The words that characterise the way women talk perpetuate this myth – women chatter, gossip, prattle, natter – about trivial matters. At the same time, feminist researchers have claimed to find that men talk more than women, hogging the floor in public and workplace settings.

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