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.
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I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.
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.
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.
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
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