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Genderlect: the concept that male and female communication are two separate cultural dialects
This theory believes that male and female often get into conflict about miscommunication because they don't consider their cross communication as cross-cultured
Cultural differences:
Women communicate to gain human connections
vs
Men communicate to gain status
Genderlect Style of Women: Rapport talk
Speech style that helps establish connections with other
Genderlect Style of Men: Report Talk
Speech style to give information, win arguments, and direct attention
Differences include: speaking, story telling, listening, asking questions, dealing with conflicts
Speaking:
Use of rapport talk to make connections with others
Story telling:
Usually tell stories about others to express community
Tend to talk themselves down to be on the same level as the listener in order to better connection
Listening:
Hold eye contact, offer head nods, give responses (cooperative overlap) to show they are paying attention
Cooperative overlap is a supportive interruption intended to show agreement with the speaker
Asking Questions:
Women ask questions to establish connections with others
Use tag questions when giving declarative statements to allow the recipient to give their own opinions or reduce the weight of potential disagreement
Conflict:
Sees conflict as a threat to avoid for the goodness of their connection with others
Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2014). A first look at communication theory. (9th ed.). New, York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Speaking:
Use report talk to increase status over others
Story telling:
Tell jokes to up one another, challenging if anyone can do better than them
Tend to talk themselves up by making themselves the heroes of their stories who overcome obstacles on their own
Listening:
Sees cooperative overlap as attempting to take control of the conversation
Asking Questions:
Don't ask questions because they desire to feel self-sufficient
Considers tag questions to make the person seem indecisive
Conflict:
Comfortable with conflict because it gives them a chance to increase their status
Proof to Gendelect theory may by confirmation bias
Tannen had suggested we use the aha factor to test the validity of this theory
Aha factor: a subjective standard ascribing validity to an idea when it resonates with one's personal experience
May be harmful self-fulling prophecy that causes men and women to act according to the descriptions