Vad lyssnar vi på, egentligen? : En studie om skillnader mellan kvinnor och män i deras användning av samtalsstrategier, samtalsstilar och samtalsämnen i podcaster

Sammanfattning: This degree thesis aims to investigate differences in the oral language between females and males in podcasts. The core of the study is to investigate the usage of speaking strategies, conversational topics, and conversational style within the material of two different podcasts consisting of same sex conversations. The method used is Conversation Analysis and material consists of transcriptions of the two podcasts. Results present differences in the oral language between the different genders, as well as certain similarities. Both genders' conversational style appears to be closer to the high-involvement style even though the female conversation has more similarities to the high-considerateness style than the male conversation. Both genders use speaking strategies, however the males use it to a greater extent than the females. The speaking topics in the podcasts demonstrate both similarities and differences between the genders, where some are in common, and some are unique for each same sex conversation. These results are somewhat traceable to the common speaking strategies applied by the genders, according to previous research.