... is University Professor and a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C. She is the author of 15 books, including You JustDon’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation(William ... the idea of female and male styles of com-munication. The material in this article is drawn fromTalking from 9 to 5 (Avon Books, 1995).The Power of Talk:The head of a large division of a multinationalcorporation ... indirectness, pacing and pausing,word choice, and the use of such elements as jokes,figures of speech, stories, questions, and apologies.In other words, linguistic style is a set of culturallylearned...