Discussion On The Article 'Women Talk Too Much'

Discussion on “Women Talk Too Much”
In the article called “Women Talk Too Much” written by Janet Holmes, a claim has been made about how women talk to express their opinions more often than men. In fact, Janet Holmes is neutral in her opinion about as she does not express biased opinion about women tends to talk more. However, she tried to present her opinions towards this issue in a more objective way. In fact, he has presented the issue with sufficient evidence. For example, the author mentioned a lot of researches from the professional scholars. The purpose of the essay is to discuss the gender differences and the language use of different people. In order to that, they are able to find out what factors can impact the way people use their …show more content…
She thinks the opinions of women talks more than men are false. She makes some evidence to support her main claims. She said when men and women are together, it is men who talk more. This can be seen through the 65 studies of two Canadian researchers had done (Holmes 300). In author’s view, people cannot just say women talk too much or more than men. This is the expression of unfairness. Because of the inpatient emotions and powerful desire of the men, women are said to speak more. Because the men do not want to listen to what the women say. Men want to dominate the talking and the status. So they always have the opinions that women speak more than men.
The author’s subsidiary claims in this essay are that the amount of speaking is determined by many factors like personality, power and so on (Holmes 301). This is the powerful support for the main claim. Her addressing is very clear and valid. In the author’s view, the personality is the main factors to decide the amount of the speaking. The dominating power is also the factor for people to talk more. These are the good explanation for the authors’ main claims. Many people think women speaks more than men since ancient times. This saying is not scientific. The author counters their ideas …show more content…
The researchers do a research on the students in kindergarten, primary, secondary and tertiary education. The results express that males dominate classroom talks. This can also be found in the discussion. Based on the author’s description, in the company, men often patronized women and dominated the meetings. Based on this evidence, people can know that women are not naturally speaking too much than men. This opinion is just unfair for the women. In the society, men speak more than women in many conditions.
The author’s tone is neutral. Through the passage, the author does not use the objective words like “I think, I believe, etc.” The author uses some evidence to prove her argument. At first, the author illustrates the common views that women speaks more than men. Then the author give a claim that the amount of people’s speaking is determined by many factors. People cannot just simply say that women are talking too much. Then some evidences given prove the author’s idea. Women do not speak more than men. So people can see the author’s neutral tone through the