Men's Conversation Vs. Women's Conversation

f a man and a woman.
             The definition of conversational style according to Tannen, is the way in expressing and interpreting meaning in conversation. She added that conversation style is mostly influenced by ethnic background or family communicative habits. Besides delivering the purpose and goal of the conversation, communicating style creates impression on the speaker.
             In a conversation with a man, a woman typically listens. While men do most of the talking. In other word, a man mostly dominates a conversation done by a pair of opposite sexes. A Man has a tendency to keep talking while whereas, woman tries to keep listening to man's talking. Women sometimes tend to stop in the middle of the conversation because they do not know what they are going to say next. "[W]omen much more often than men break off without finishing their sentences, because they start talking without having thought out what they are going to say" (Pfeiffer 280). This sentence describes exactly how women often stop in the middle of the conversation without going any further.
             The other unique characteristic of women in conversation is asking questions. "At times I feel that all the women did was ask questions? I attended to my own speech and discovered the same pattern." (Fishman 32). I agree with this statement, because I somehow experienced it too. When I had a long chat w
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