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Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L Locke (view source)
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|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently
|author=John L Locke
|borrow=Yes
|isbn=978-0521887137
|pages=252
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|date=August 2011
|website=http://johnllocke.com/
|summary=A highly readable romp through the academic study of linguistic differences between males and females, a persuasive hypothesis that these are biologically determined.
|cover=0521887135
|aznuk=0521887135
|aznus=0521887135
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His thesis is that there are biological and evolutionary imperatives that have led men to talk the way they do ''to other men'' and similarly for women to talk the way they do ''to other women'' which have led to two very different styles or mechanisms of communication, but there is no similar imperative that would or could have led to a third language (in the broad sense) for use in cross-sex conversations.
Further reading suggestion for more linguistic cogitation try: [[How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal]]l
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