Pamela Fishman conducted an experiment and involved listening to fifty-two hours of pre-recorded conversations between young American couples. Five out of the six subjects were attending graduate school; all subjects were either feminists or sympathetic to the women’s movement, were white, between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. Fishman listened to recordings and concentrated on two characteristics common in women’s dialect, including tag questions for example ”you know?” Experiments The dominance theory States the power imbalance between men and women is due to men being dominant and controlling in their interactions. Dominance theory-Fishman Fishman focuses on some of the features of women’s language considered by Lakoff but interprets them in a very different way.
Dominance theory

The Dominance theory states the power imbalance between Men and Women is due to men being dominant and controlling in their interactions.