Patterns of Communication in Women and Men

Patterns of Communication in Women and Men Order Description Are Different Patterns of Communication in Women and Men Innately Determined? YES: Louann Brizendine, from Th e Female Brain (Morgan Road Books, 2006). Brenda ]. Allen, from Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity (Waveland Press, 2004). Long Grove: IL. As another example, it turns out that no study has actually counted the number of words used by women and men in natural conversations, that is, not until July 2007. In contradiction of Brizdendine's claim that women utter 200,000 words to men's 7,000 per day, Matthias Mehl and his colleagues found over of period of 1 7 working hours women average 1 6,2 1 4 words and men averaged 1 5,669, a highly statistically nonsignificant finding (Science, val. 31). Currently there i s less interest in examining sex differences i n language and more emphasis on how people use language in everyday life to create and maintain social realities. Mary Crawford points out that feminists have worked to create a more gender-balanced language through the coining of new words and putting old words to new uses. She notes that language is power. 96 Suggested Readings Daniel ]. Canary and Kathryn Dindia, Eds., Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication: Critical Essays and Empirical Investigations of Sex and Gender in Interaction (2nd ed. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006). Mary Crawford, "Gender and Language," in R. K. Unger, ed., Psychology of Women and Gender (pp. 228-244), (New York: john Wiley & Son, 200 1). K. M. Galvin and P. ]. Cooper, Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication, 4th ed. (Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 2006). Diana Ivy and Phil Backlund, Gender Speak: Personal Effectiveness in Gender Communication (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003). Charlotte Krolokke and Anne Scott Sorenson, Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005). Deborah Tannen, Talking from 9 to 5 : Women and Men at Work (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 200 1 ) . ]. Wood, (200 1 ) . Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 200 1 ) .