An examination and explanation of gender role in turn-taking in dialogue process between Iranian speakers.

Alizadeh Nabil, Leila and Razinejad, Siami and Siami, Siami (2017) An examination and explanation of gender role in turn-taking in dialogue process between Iranian speakers. Masters thesis, university of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

The present study has been accomplished in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis modules and it aims to study the social and non- linguistic factor of "gender" in turn-taking . The researcher tries to evaluate the effect of both genders' conversations - that of men and women associates- in regards to the "dominance theory" (Lakoff, 1973) and with respect to Halliday's interpersonal meta- functions. The movie "Vakonesh- e- Panjom" ( The Fifth Reaction) has been chosen to obtain the corpus, cause it has gender and power standards within its conversations of associates. The data have been analyzed in qualitative and quantitative forms. According to"dominance theory", certain linguistic features, which have occurred in both men and women talks were extracted from different gender affected contexts and the frequency of each occurrence in different generic contexts has been calculated. The data was analyzed according to the second theoretical framework and the interpersonal metafunctions which have been used in each genders' talks were extracted.. The conclusion is that the people who used certain linguistic features and interpersonal aspects that have the implication of power, had the most and longer turn- taking in discourse and according to the "dominance theory" and Halliday point of view, the power between men and women, is not distributed equally. On the other hand, there are various non-verbal factors such as culture, education, occupation and so forth which affect turn-taking processes in certain contexts.

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