Fishman

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    • When was her study?
      1983
    • Who did she study?
      Young, American couples.
    • What did she discover?
      Mixed gender conversations sometimes fail because of how men fail to respond to declarative statements.
    • What did she say about women as speakers?
      Women are more co-operative speakers.
    • What model is she a part of?
      Dominance model
    • What did she base her study on?
      52 hours of prerecorded conversation
    • What did she argue that tag questions were used for? Compare this with Lakoff.
      For women to gain conversational power, rather than showing weakness and uncertainty.
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