Beattie

• Date

  1982
• Model

  Disagrees with Zimmerman and West’s dominance model
• Data

  Mixed sex conversation
• Methodology

  10 hours of recorded conversation measuring men and women’s interruptions
• Conclusions

  557 interruptions total
• Conclusions

  Men and women interrupted at more or less and equal frequency making it statistically insignificant
• Conclusions

  Beattie questions the validity of Zimmerman and West’s research
• Criticisms

  Beattie criticises Zimmerman and West‘s research as he believed data may be skewed by one voluble subject
• Criticisms

  Interruptions can occur for other reasons than to control the conversation
• Interruption reasons

  to transmit urgent information
• Interruption reasons

  Show agreement or involvement in conversation
• Interruption reasons

  To try and take the floor from a dominant speaker