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My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.