Scott's lecture was very interesting, because I learnt a lot of things about communication between humans and especially, between men and women. First of all, he introduced us to the study of male and female communication patterns with some aspects of linguistics and pragmatics, and discourse analysis. He said that natural conversation is representative of a community and that there are cultural differences concerning conversations.

In the first part of the video, Scott talked about many experiences that were run to learn more about communicative patterns. For examples, different groups were tested to find out the conversational differences between males and females. Same gender pairs of friends were matched and had a conversation during twenty minutes. It was observed during the study that boys used many different topics and spent little time on one topic, compared to girls, who talked about just a few topics, but spend more time to chat on one topic. The physical alignment was also observed.

In the second part of the video, Scott talked about TV debates and achieving "Expert status". The status is how important you are in the society. First of all, he introduced us with the comparison between status and connection. After that, he talked about indirectness: requests for action, direct vs. indirect requests, and imperatives and indirect imperatives. The study of conversation styles showed that one style is more male, and another is more female.