Male/female language differences and effects in same‐sex and mixed‐sex dyads: The gender‐linked language effect

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• Anthony Mulac and fohn M. Wiemann are Professors, and Toni W. Gibson, a former graduate student, Communication Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sally J. Widenmann is a Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California, Davis. A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the Second International Conference on Social Psychology and Language, Bristol, England, July, 1983, under the title, “Male/Female Language Differences and Their Effects in Like‐Sex and Mixed‐Sex Dyads: A Test of Interpersonal Accommodation and the Gender‐Linked Language Effect.” The authors wish to thank Gordon Smyth and Lyn Whitaker for their assistance in statistical modeling and James J. Bradac, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Howard Giles, Torborg L. Lundell, the Editor, and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on the manuscript.
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