Conversational dominance in Thai male and female speech

This research focuses on the comparison of sequential conversational dominance and participatory conversational dominance in Thai male and female speech. Thesse aspects of dominance are regarded as a controlling action. Therefore, this research hypothesizes that male speakers will exhibit more sequential successful controlling action (SSCA), the action of answering the asked question with an expected answer, and participatory successful controlling action (PSCA), the action of interuptting an ongoing conversation which forced the previous speaker to stop. The speech data were obtained from five dyad conversations between a male and a female speaker with the same age working as same-leveled employees in the same office. The results suggested that despite having difference conversational characteristics, male and female speakers do not quantitatively have a different level of conversation. Nevertheless, if the data are collected in various conversational context, more insights to theconversational dominance in Thai male and female speech could be subsequently obtained.