The role of gender in conversational dominance: A study of EFL learners

Pakzadian, Maryam; Tootkaboni, Arezoo Ashoori

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2018.1560602

Cited by 10 publications

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“…The writer investigated the issue of conversational dominance by five parameters: 1. interrupting-self oriented, 2. interruption-other oriented, 3. topic shifting, 4. asking questions or raising topics, and 5. criticizing and engaging in conflict (Pakzadian & Tootkaboni, 2018).…”

Section: Linguistic Features In Political Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both man and women did cooperative interruption. Meanwhile, Pakzadian and Tootkaboni (2018) conducted a research on the role of gender of graduate EFL learners while discussing about Iranian social life. The results were men showed some dominant speech characteristics such as interrupting woman to take control of the conversation, imposing their power on female speakers, shifting the topic, and criticizing the women's ideas.…”

Section: Conversational Dominancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tannen (1993, as cited in Pakzadian & Tootkaboni, 2018) mentions that interruption is the main reason for conversation failure. Interruption is also a strategy for men to dominate women in a conversation (West & Zimmerman, 1987).…”

Section: Dominance By Interruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conversational dominance and politeness strategy on a political discussion among peers

Yuliana¹

2021

Indonesian JELT

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This paper aims to explore the differences of female and male linguistic features analyzed using the conversational dominance analysis and the common politeness strategies when discussing Kabinet Indonesia Maju (Onward Indonesia Cabinet). The participants were a group of Master Degree students consisting of two male and two female students. The data was gathered by conducting a focus group discussion, then the verbal utterance was orthographically transcribed. The writer used quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse the data. The finding showed that other-oriented interruption was the most-occurred dominance, in which both male and female participants interrupted the conversation to exhibit the agreement, support the speakers, and reinforce the flow of the conversation. The female participants did self-oriented interruption more than male participants to ask questions. This finding conversed Lakoff (1973), Coates (1991), and West and Zimmerman (1987)’s female language features in which the female participants stood for their own opinion, shared their critic, gave suggestions, and asked questions. This study found that the participants showed mostly positive politeness strategy which they agreed to each other's statement, supported one another's idea, and contributed new topics to the discussion to maintain the discussion. This paper concluded that gender is not the only factor determining linguistics features and politeness strategy in this discussion among peers. The other possible influencing factors were the participants’ relationship closeness, different cultural backgrounds, topic mastery, and their equal education level.

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Section: Linguistic Features In Political Discussionmentioning

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Section: Conversational Dominancementioning

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Conversational dominance and politeness strategy on a political discussion among peers

Yuliana¹

2021

Indonesian JELT

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“…Women are more concerned with sensory issues, while men are more concerned with emotional issues (Strong et al, 2009). Men try to maintain power over the topic by using a more powerful way of speech, whereas women exhibit greater acceptance of the topic (Pakzadian & Tootkaboni, 2018). Girls are more enthusiastic about learning languages than boys (Oga-Baldwin & Fryer, 2020).…”

Section: Gender Age Level Of Education and Social Distancing Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Speech acts in appeals for social distancing and public compliance intentions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia

Sultan

Rapi²,

Haris

et al. 2023

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Government-issued communication messages are critical in resolving health problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision of linguistic speech acts also influences the behavior of obedient and disciplined individuals. Gender, age, and race are all predictors of social distancing compliance (Pedersen Favero, 2020). However, no studies have been published examining the form of speech acts that can control public conduct in accordance with social distancing on each of these social variables. Thus, this study examined the intention of public compliance through the pragmatic interpretation of the government’s appeal for social distancing. The present study was conducted with a cross-sectional design survey involving 1339 respondents through online data collection. The findings of this study reveal that different speech acts have varying effects on people’s intentions to follow the health protocol appeal. This study makes a theoretical contribution by demonstrating that gender, age, and education level influence the perlocutionary style of speech actions in critical health communication. These findings will aid the government in developing effective messages on health risk reduction behavior through the selection of appropriate speech acts.

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“…"The marginality and powerlessness of women is reflected in both the ways women are expected to speak, and the ways in which women are spoken" (Lakoff, 1973: 45) Gender is not a concept in isolation but it is codified through cultural norms and manifested in the linguistic choices and the conversation practices of a speech community. Pakzadian and Tootkaboni (2018) conducted their research on Persian EFL learners to see the gender differences in informal conversations. The study reveals that male conversation practices like interruption, topic shifting, raising questions and topics allow them to enjoy conversational dominance over females.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relational Practice in Multilingual Peer Discourse: Talk as a Marker of Gender Identity

Faiz

Azher

Tehseem

2021

RAMSS

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This paper examines relational practice in multilingual peer discourse to inspect the distinct identity patterns of the male and the female participants involved in gender dynamics. There is a growing impetus of discourse studies as an emerging area of sociolinguistic and ethno methodological research. In this paper, talk as a marker of gender identity is explored in the light of the theoretical framework suggested by Holmes (2006) who studies the different relational strategies of male and female interlocutors in workplace environment. In the current study, conversations of six male and female postgraduate students of English language at Sargodha University, Pakistan are recorded and transcribed to see how the participants create team as a relational practice using gender specific norms via talk. The study has found that the males create team through humor in discourse while females tilt towards small talk and frequent verbal gestures of approval. Moreover, masculinities and femininities of the peers are manifested in their style and function of the conversations. The study is significant because it is going to lay a foundation for the study and exploration of gender integrated conversations in multilingual context in Pakistani English and other varieties spoken in casual talk in Pakistan.

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The role of gender in conversational dominance: A study of EFL learners

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Conversational dominance and politeness strategy on a political discussion among peers

Conversational dominance and politeness strategy on a political discussion among peers

Speech acts in appeals for social distancing and public compliance intentions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia

Relational Practice in Multilingual Peer Discourse: Talk as a Marker of Gender Identity

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