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
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
is the reason I chose to read You Just Don’t Understand: Woman and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen. I needed insight, a way to view conversation differently, something to tell me I wasn’t going crazy when speaking to the male in my house. Sometimes, it would really feel as if I were talking to an alien, someone who spoke a completely different language, even though we use the same verbal construct. Tannen lends her research and knowledge to me as a reader and a fellow woman, thus has impacted
This essay, “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently”, written by Deborah Tannen describes how women and men communicate differently in everyday life. Should battle of the sexes exist in classes, work, or even in homes? Men communicate and partake an unlike body language than women do. Men tend to express their selves loudly, but women are more on the quiet side and like to talk among small groups as explained in this article. The way men or women express their selves can be determined
Critique of Deborah Tannen's " You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation." In '' You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation," Deborah Tannen argues and states that men and women have different communication skills. Over the past ten years, plentiful investigations and analysis were focused on the different skills of communication between males and females among different cultures. . For instance, we have seen how communication failures in the multicultural
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