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Pamela Fishman
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Fishman
challenges
Lakoff's
Dominance Approachassertion that asking questions reveals women's uncertainty and apprehension in communication
Instead, Fishman views
questions
as a feature of interactions: women ask questions because they have power, not because they feel insecure.
Conversational shitwork'
is her
iconic
expression for the work that women perform to keep a conversation going (
1977
).
In her paper titled
'Interaction
: The Work Women Do' (
1978
),
Fishman
states that women do more
conversational work
than men
She observed that:
The
men
controlled the act of recording the conversations.
The men decided what should be edited out.
In at least two cases, the men attempted to control Fishman's interpretation of the recordings.
The
women
asked nearly
three
times as many questions as the men.
The women were more actively engaged in conversation than the men.
Fishman concluded that
women
work harder than men in communication because they have less
certainty
of success
Fishman claims that
women
have to do most or all of the work when interacting with men
She adds that this is not down to the way
women
talk
, it is more because
men
make
minimal
effort
to
adequately
respond.
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