In my opinion both styles of communication have positive and negative aspects. It only gets problematic if men decode women's conversational style according to their rules and if women look at men's way to communicate from their point of view. This leads to striking misunderstandings between the sexes and to wrong interpretations of what has been said. "If women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy, while men speak and hear a language …showed first 75 words of 905 total…

…showed last 75 words of 905 total…linguistically opposite of the patterns observed previously. Another point says that men and women are active participants in conversation in the classroom because of the subject. English and history classes are conversationally dominated by women and math and science classes by men, with a few exceptions. Both sexes feel more comfortable volunteering information because of the stereotype that men have a greater affinity for math and science and women to english and history. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**