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The interest in the way women and men talk has grown astronomically since the mid-1970s.
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1. Introduction The interest in the way women and men talk has grown astronomically since the mid-1970s, and sociolinguistic research carried out in many different cultures means that we now know far more than we did about the ways in which women and men interact and about the ways in which their patterns of talk differ. Early research on gender differences in language tended to focus on mixed talk, that is, talk involving both women and men. Initially, researchers concentrated on what were seen as core features of language: phonetics and phonology, syntax and morphology. Then researchers began to turn their attention to broader aspects of talk, the conversational strategies of male and female speakers. More recently, researchers have started to look at single-sex interaction and to ask questions such as: how do speakers 'do gender', and is gender performed differently in single-sex-groups? This work to some extent retraces this historical...
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