Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor with a research specialty in conversational styles at Georgetown University, illustrated the Genderlect Styles theory, the idea that discourse differences between male and female are two distinct cultural dialects. The origins of this theory comes from Tannen’s book You Just Don’t Understand, which looks at explaining why men and women talk past one another and strongly believes that male and female conversation is cross-cultural communication. Genderlect