Imagine a World in Which Men Had Women's Conversational Style

question 60

Essay

Imagine a world in which men had women's conversational style and women had men's (remember Deborah Tannen's work).In what way would such a world differ from ours? Be sure to trace the differences between the worlds back to Tannen's gender conversational styles.

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