of listening, of talking, and even have different purposes at stake in most conversations. She concludes that these different styles produce different meanings of the same words, and lead to miscommunication.
I make sense of seemingly senseless misunderstandings
that haunt our relationships, and show that a man and
a woman can interpret the same conversation differently,
even when there is no apparent misunderstanding (p. 13).
The premise that women and men speak different languages, insofar as meaning is boncerned, is alro made by Marilyn Sachs (2005) of the Department of Family and Consume
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