Conversational Strategies in Same Gender Group Conversation

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^{This research aimed to analyze the conversational strategies in all male and all female conversations. The case study upon which this research is based, investigated how each member of group conversations perform conversational strategies by involving 4 male speakers and 3 female speakers which has been carried out by the researcher by applying descriptive qualitative design. The data of this research were speakers’ utterances which contain features of conversational strategies taken from recorded conversations. Having analyzed the conversational strategies in each same gender group, the analysis revealed that there were not seem to be a considerable quantitative difference to suggest that certain strategies was specific to one gender group in which these two group conversations similarly performed a collaborative behaviour. The result showed that minimal response was the most dominant strategy used in both of all male and all female conversations.}

^{Keywords: conversational strategy, all male, all female}