Question

According to quantitative studies of gender-based language differences, men tend to interrupt women more often than the reverse. Men also tend to talk for longer overall periods of time than women. Which of the following ideas do these findings BEST support?

Answer 1

Dominance model

Explanation:

The dominance model suggests that men's uses of language dominate the weaker female sex. Partly this stems from their higher position in the society or hierarchy. Thus either consciously or unconsciously men exert the power and maintain dominance in society. Men often maintained control over conversation and women ask many more questions almost as if they ask permission to speak. When men start to speak they were much likely to succeed on the other hand women face trouble getting the conversation going. Women do a lot of work in keeping the conversation going whereas men tend to control the conversation that helping reinforce their social dominance and power.