Cross-Sex Communicative Strategies in Hindi and Indian English Tamara Valentine Understanding the strategies and patterns in cross-sex conversations can offer insight and help clarify some of the many problems of discourse in societies today. Such research can show how the social diversity and variation, not only in terms of varied gender, but ethnicity age, social class, etc, affect conversational management and can provide insight into the processes of discourse in heterogeneous communities such as those of varied gender, age, social status as well as of different languages.
