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Communication Styles and Gender

Communication Styles and Gender. Amber E. Kinser , Ph.D. Dept of Communication, ETSU. Communication Worldviews. Agentic. Communal. Hierarchy Competitive Maintaining Status Compliance Self-promotion Conversational Command . Web Cooperative Equalizing Status Collaboration

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Communication Styles and Gender

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  1. Communication Styles and Gender Amber E. Kinser, Ph.D. Dept of Communication, ETSU

  2. CommunicationWorldviews Agentic Communal • Hierarchy • Competitive • Maintaining Status • Compliance • Self-promotion • Conversational Command • Web • Cooperative • Equalizing Status • Collaboration • Shared Credit • Conversational Maintenance

  3. Communication Foci Agentic Communal • Instrumental • Problem-solving first • Linear, Chronological; Get to the point • Task-Focused • Troubles Talk: Solve it • Expressive • Understanding first • Contextualizing; Less structured • Relationship-focused • Troubles Talk: Understand it; Talk as a relationship glue

  4. Conversational Rituals Agentic Communal • Speak briefly • Wait turns • More verbal precision • Responsive verbal and emotional cues; more skilled at interpreting cues • Invitational; sometimes tentative (we/let’s, qualifiers, tag questions, suggestive, “thanks”) • Speak more often, longer • Speak first, interrupt • More verbal errors • Minimal verbal response cues and emotional cues; less skilled at interpreting cues • Declamatory (I, declaratives, directives)

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