1101 Why Tannen Chose “Sex, Lies and Conversation”? Relationships generally need a lot of patience in order to work out. In “Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?” Deborah Tannen argues that the cause of misunderstanding between men and women is the differences in approaches of communication between the two sexes. Tannen used a deceptively interesting title; a sneak peek will never give you the real concept of the content. She employed “Sex” for genders
to Deborah Tannen "Sex, Lies, and Conversation, “and John Gray “Speaking Different Language", Men's and women's conversational styles reflect on each gender's needs. They are a series of examples that both authors give to support their research and opinions. Gray believe that men's and women's communicate so different it’s like almost they come from different planets (Venus and mars). Hence, according to Tannen their linguistics is unique that they seem from other cultures. Therefore each sex needs
friends one may have. In Effective Writer’s class, six essays that pertained to Comparison- Contrast and Division were studied and discussed in class. In those six essays three were Comparison and Contrast, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”, “Sex, Lies and Conversation”, “Songs of the summer 1963…2013”. I ranked the effectiveness, from the most to least, of the comparison essays respectively. The other three essays were division
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 communication is one of the reasons as to why they communicate very differently. Men and women both communicate very well with the same sex, that whenever it comes time to communicate with the