Estudio de las interrupciones producidas en tertulias periodísticas atendiendo a las variables sexo y rol de los interlocutores

Abstract

Several works have been carried out about linguistic differences between men and women talk and, specifically, about how they use polite and impolite strategies. In this article, we aim to focus on interruption, an impolite strategy whose appearance in conversation was initially explained by some authors as the consequence of the fact that, in Western communities, women spoke so much that men interrrupted them. In this sense, we intend to show the correlation between different kinds of interruptions and gender and role variables in a specific discourse type, the political talk show, in which turn-talking generally takes place freely.