Occupational language investigation flash cards

Question	Answer
Tracy and Eisenberg	When role-playing delivering criticism to a co-worker about errors in a business letter, men showed more concern for the feelings of the person they were criticizing when in the subordinate role, while women showed more concern when in the superior role.
Eakins & Eakins	In seven university faculty meetings, the men spoke for longer. The men’s turns ranged from 10.66 to 17.07 seconds, the women’s from three to 10 seconds.
Herbert & Straight	Compliments tend to flow from those of higher rank to those of lower rank.
Herring	Email discussion which took place on a linguistics ‘distribution list’, five women and 30 men took part, even though women make up nearly half the members of the Linguistic Society of America and 36% of subscribers to the list. Men’s messages were twice as long, on average, as women’s. Women tended to use a personal voice, e.g. ‘I am intrigued by your comment …’. The tone adopted by the men who dominated the discussion was assertive:
Hornyak	The shift from work talk to personal talk is always initiated by the highest-ranking person in the room.
Holmes and Marra	Contrary to popular belief, women use just as much humour as men, and use it for the same functions, to control discourse and subordinates and to contest superiors, although they are more likely to encourage supportive and collaborative humour.

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