Study into pause duration in male and female conversation
June 28, 2017 4:34 AM   Subscribe

A while ago BBC radio reported on a journal article about conversation between men and women and how men assumed the speaker had finished their point after a much shorter pause than women did. I can't find the article just lots of stuff about men interrupting women. Can anyone with better googlefu or journal access find it for me?
posted by sodium lights the horizon to Human Relations (2 answers total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Men compete, women collaborate - DiVA ...

Maybe? Helpful search phrases - turn taking and holding/taking the floor, linguistics. (It's a cultural thing as well as a gender thing)

(Sorry I can't craft a better answer, life happening.)
posted by freethefeet at 5:24 AM on June 28, 2017


Not surprisingly, Deborah Tannen has an article: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5523ffe4e4b012b2c4ebd8fc/...

I found related results:
https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/zimmermanwest1975.pdf
https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/jamesClarke.pdf
so I backed up to the faculty member: https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/
and you can also view the PDF folder: https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/

One search result included this text Women should be encouraged to interrupt more in meetings. link http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio?item=09072007news&userimagepref=off but the link goes to today's site.
Cached result: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio?item=09072007news&userimagepref=off
This radio program refers to the web article BBC - Capital - Why women should interrupt men radio program and web article dated June 19 & 20, 2017
posted by theora55 at 6:16 AM on June 28, 2017


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