“How male and female students use language differently” by Deborah Tannen Deborah Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research mainly focuses on the expression of interpersonal relationships in conversational interactions, including how these interactions are affected by gender and cultural differences. In her essay Tannen uses gender to reveal the differences between male and female conversational styles in classroom discussions
In her insightful essay “Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other,” socio-linguist, Deborah Tannen, discusses the rationale behind conversing with sex-separate groups. She conveys the imbalance and gap that is found within relationships and married couples. In the eyes of Tannen, maintaining or acquiring knowledge of the primitive development of communication between different genders can enhance communication amongst distinct cultures. The act of communicating with others maintains
other verses when they are around the opposite sex. In Deborah Tannen explanation of languages in “Deborah Tannen and the Difference Theory” she is for more effective than Robin Tolmach Lakoff in her article “You Are What You Say” at proving this. I find language to be a key to identify people’s view of the opposite sex. Both articles are convincing that this theory is true. In the Article “Deborah Tannen and the Difference Theory” by Deborah Tannen, the author offers various explanation on how men and
In “How to Turn Debate into Dialogue” Deborah Tannen argues that America has become tainted by “the argument culture” in which verbal conflict predominates interpersonal communication at the cost of truth and knowledge. Tannen argues that debate predicated on conflict and competition, in which the goal is to win, is a detriment to society where fact and logic are sacrificed for contest. As put by Tannen “We must expand our notion of "debate" to include more dialogue . . . It's an effort we have
Deborah Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research mainly focuses on the expression of interpersonal relationships in conversational interactions, including how these interactions are affected by gender and cultural differences. In her essay Tannen uses gender to reveal the differences between male and female conversational styles in classroom discussions. She formulates the theory that males naturally prefer and dominate
In The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue, Deborah Tannen explains the reason why people usually argue when they have discussions and disagree on various issues. Tannen points out that their tendency of Americans to foster opposed two sided opinions on matters is contributed by many reason such as descriptions, the war stance, and the journalistic media that have led to the creation of culture of war of words. To convince her readers about her argument, she skillfully uses various
Based on audience and purpose, my writing style changes, adapting to both. Deborah Tannen had written articles backed up by research on how gender influences your writing style. If gender can influence your writing what else influences it? In listening I am analytical, allowing my responses to both verbal and written prompts to follow the appropriate pattern in responding. Analytical listening lends to counter arguments, which linger across both my writing and conversations. For example, when reading
Deborah Tannen in her essay titled Sex, Lies and Conversation; Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? That males and woman aren’t in the same mind when it comes to sharing of ones feelings and how that can change once they both see their flaws. Woman and man live in two different worlds but are parallel to each other in the relationship, when a problem comes to the surface a man might hide it and live with it to not feel shamed or humiliated depending on the subject. While a female
people don’t understand the meaning of the issues. Many people don’t understand the term marked and unmarked according to the Deborah Tannen article “marked women and unmarked men she defines marked as the “refers to the way language alters the base meaning of a word by adding linguistic particle that has no meaning on its on”The term unmarked according to the Deborah Tannen article is “The unmarked tense of verbs in English is the present -- for example, visit. To indicate past, you mark the verb
Women are more naturally talkative and sensitive while men are tough and do not bother paying attention to their own feelings. In the movie Point Break, you will see characters communicating with each other very differently with one another. From Deborah Tannen’s essay on Sex Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard For Men and Women To Talk To Each Other?, sometimes the points she makes and the research in her essay is seen in the movie with certain characters but not on all of them. Cross-cultural