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I guess it depends on a lot of questions to which I don't personally know the answers. Is that vocal style more common in women than men? When the supervisor sa
by satyrnein 5y ago
I guess it depends on a lot of questions to which I don't personally know the answers. Is that vocal style more common in women than men? When the supervisor says he doesn't find it authoritative, is that because it's not how men talk? Are women conditioned to talk like that specifically because it's less authoritative, because men have not always reacted well to authoritative women?
Basically, I'm not sure whether it's truly a simple "skill" unrelated to gender and how women have been historically perceived and treated.
- leet_thow 5y agoI read somewhere that it is more common with women in conversation and is meant to garner an affiramitive 'uh-huh' type response in the listener.
- alisonkisk 5y agoMatt Levine (Money Stuff) writes in uptalk and people love it. But he's trying to be goofy when he does it.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI write in uptalk, not as an affect and people don’t love it, but it helps me get my job done?
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- wahern 5y agoAccording to this paper examining Southern Californian English, https://pages.ucsd.edu/~aritchart/RitchartArvaniti_SpeechProsody2014.pdf https://pages.ucsd.edu/~aritchart/RitchartArvaniti_SpeechPro..., uptalk is about twice as common in women (42%) as in men (20%). Though at 20% it seems common enough in men that reasonable people could debate how gender-specific it is.