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By JACKIE FAIR
Battalion Reporter
Men who talk less and listen more
will have more rewarding relation
ships with females, Dr. Annette
Kolodny suggested Tuesday in her
presentation “Why Men and
Women Can’t Talk to One Another, ”
sponsored by the MSC Great Issues
Committee.
Kolodny, a feminist and expert in
linguistics, said the way we learn to
speak reflects and maintains unequal
relations between the sexes in our
society.
“Women in our society are
molded to believe that they don’t
have anything worthwhile to say,’’
Kolodny said. “Their conversation
should be grammatical and polite
since the content is thought by men
to be trivial.’’
Kolodny’s interest in social ling
uistics began while she was teaching
English at the University of British
Columbia.
“I noticed a definite discrepancy
in the spoken slang and eloquent
written language of my female stu
dents,’ Kolodny said. “It seemed as
if some women have two vocabular
ies and it is more accepted among
males if the female hides the better
of the two.”
Kolodny referred to a study by Dr.
Otto Jesperson in the 1920s that said
women have a natural shyness that
causes them to invent euphemisms
and avoid slang.
They also have an inability to com
plete sentences because they don’t
think before they speak. However,
Kolodny believes women could com
plete their sentences if they weren’t
interrupted by men so often.
“Males usually don’t interrupt
other males if one has status over the
other, but males interrupt females
frequently and women don’t object,”
Kolodny said.
She added that men and women
not listening to each other is another
problem. In an 18-month study at
the University of Illinois, couples
either married or living together
consented to having their homes
bugged for a study on their conversa
tions, Kolodny explained.
The results showed that 62 per
cent of all conversations were initi
ated by women, and only 38 percent
of these conversations got a response
from the men. On the other hand, all
conversations initiated by males got
a response from the females.
Kolodny suggested that women
become more declarative in their
speaking patterns.
“Say what you mean rather than
asking for an affirmation of every
thing you say,” Kolodny said.
“This lack of communication in
our society is as debilitating for the
males as it is for the females, ” Kolod
ny said. “You’ll have a more fulfilling
relationship if you talk with a person
rather than talk at them.”
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Feminist and social linguistics expert Dr. Annette Kolodny
told an audience Tuesday that the way we speak reflects and
maintains unequal relations between the sexes in our society.
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its counterpart at the USDA library
in Beltsville, Md. The original re
quest is sent on a standard size page
in two to three minutes.
Dodd said documents could be
transmitted if the system is
approved. Records on the project
will reveal cost, handling features
and man-hours involved in transmis
sions.
“The system must be reliable and
it must also fit into library routines,”
Dodd said. “Anytime we introduce
some kind of new technology, we
introduce some problems.”
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Animal Pavilion
November 15, 7:30 p.m
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teams of 4
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Bryan High School Uihings
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the football fans at ANCO
Silver Taps rite
set for Tuesday
Silver Taps for Mark R. Iverson
E. 29tii - 5ij|r., a Texas A&M University en-
ironmental design major is tenta-
ively set for 10:30 p.m. Tuesday in
rent of the Academic Building, Uni-
ersity officials said.
Iverson, a 20-year-old from Dal-
as, died Saturday of injuries re
vived in an Oct. 27 automobile
pish.
Anthropological Society
Presents
‘Ancient Maya Production and
Commerce at Coiha, Belize”
by Dr. Harry Shafer
Room 301 Bolton Hall
7:30 Wednesday
Nov. 14th
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