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Rahbar B, Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari B, Karimi Khanlooi G. The Relationship between Gender and Speech Interruption: A Sociolinguistic Study. LRR 2012; 3 (4) :135-147
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1- Behzad Rahbar1 1. Assistant Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3- Assistant Professor in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
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This study attempts to evaluate one of the language use differences among women and men according to the Dominance Theory. The main purpose of the study is thus to investigate speech interruption as the participatory dominance factor based on the Dominance Theory in the Persian community and three affecting factors on interruption (direct statements, subject deviation and verbs and adverbs of uncertainty). Speech interruption and three affecting factors on interruption have been evaluated in the single and cross-sex societies. The data required were obtained from 40 two-stage interviews (10 men and 10 women students in the age range of 18-24 years). The men and women of this study in single and cross-sex societies, based on speech interruption factor, showed different linguistic behaviors and the linguistic representation of gender-based attitude in the Persian community was tangible. The relationship of each affecting factor on interruption with interruption was determined. The findings suggest that the framework provided by Dominance Theory in Persian community is inefficient.        
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Article Type: Research Paper | Subject: Sociology of Language
Published: 2012/02/20

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