Otto Jespersen (1922)
Women talk alot
“Nice”
Emotional rather than gramatical( and)
Small vocabulary
Men are responsible for new words
Robin Lakoff (1975)
Hedging
Super polite
Tag questions
Empty adjectives
Qualifiers (I think that)
Apologies
Zimmerman and West (1975)
Men interrupt women- dominating conversation
Pamela Fishman (1983)
Women use minimal responses during conversation
Dale spender dominance approach (1985)
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