Abstract
There has been a consensus across cultures that women are chatty and that they talk too much. However, this supposition is not supported by neither empirical nor normative research methodology. In their book, Language Myths: Women Talk Too Much, Bauer & Trudgill vehemently refute the hypothesis that women talk too much (Bauer & Trudgill, 1998, p.43). The dual are of the view that women do not dominate all discussions. Women dominate certain discussions depending on the social context at hand, and the comparative power that they possess in a given situation. As a way of discrediting the idea that woman talk too much compared ...
