For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
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Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.
For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
I am geared towards communicating on a female level.
For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
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