Tuesday, 14 June 2016

''Men keep their turn by avoiding pauses at clause boundaries, by using utterance incompletors ('firstly..' 'but..' and 'so..') by fillers ('mm,' 'er'), by raising their voices, speeding up and avoiding 'nominating' eye contact.''


Source: ''Sociolinguistics'', author: Peter Stockwell 2002, London: Routledge
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  1. Unknown14 June 2016 at 03:58

    you could test this by having a conversation on the same topic with a variety of men and seeing if Peter Stockwell's theory is valid with your target audience. You could then comment on the similarities and differences you found in your research compared to Stockwell's

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  2. Neve Clatworthy14 June 2016 at 04:03

    You could test this by analysing the responses of participants to questions of different lengths, you could then compare similarities and differences compared to the reaserchers results

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  3. Unknown16 June 2016 at 08:20

    You could set up a really controversial idea for a group to discuss and look at how different participants got their point across and did they use those techniques or others. Interesting area. Read widely.

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