Deborah Tannen

ourselves and thoughts depending on the situation. In a relationship between two hetertosexual people, there an important reason for that couple to know the ins and out of certain conversations between each other. In Deborah Tannen’s article “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” Tannen emphasizes the key difference in conversation and explains the reason for conversation barriers between a heterosexual relationship. This paper will analyze Tannen’s argument on the conversation…

easy exchange and understanding which is communication. However, communication has never been easy between two genders, for there are still many points that differentiate the way each of the genders make their speech to be understood. According to Deborah Tennen writer of But What Do You Mean? she says "women and men often have different ideas about what is appropriate" (435) in apology expression, criticism, complaint and fighting. Habitually it is understood experession of apology might be…

Paper 2: Gender Differences According to Deborah Tannen there are differing motives for talk between men and women. Men communicate to preserve independence, renegotiate, or maintain status in a hierarchy. Women communicate to establish and maintain rapport, connection, and relationship. The likely result of these differences is dialectical tension between a man’s need for status and a woman’s need for connection. The following are some differences between “rapport” talk (private speaking),…

Discussion Question 1: Men and women certainly have different listening styles. While linguist Deborah Tannen claims that the differences in listening style are due to men and women being brought up in different cultures, communication scholar Kathryn Dindia suggests that men and women are raised in the same culture, but their listening differences result from being told how different they are. I agree with Dindia’ claim because many men and women can share a lot of cultural similarities and…

articles. The first article, called “Sex, Lies, and Conversation: why is it so hard for men and women to talk to each other?” written by Deborah Tannen, describes the difference in conversational behaviors of men and women. The reason for these differences and how they are a severe problem for married couples and also a reason for their divorce. In the end Deborah gives a solution for the problem. This article was published in the Washington post, 1990. The second article is a marketing study by…

The article, “The Argument Culture,” by Deborah Tannen claims that debates often create problems in communication and that oftentimes a debate only represents two sides of an argument. Tannen states that the principles of debate have been distorted and have plunged society into what she calls “the argument culture” (Reid & DelliCarpini, 2017, p. 302). Tannen states that the argument culture has become the preferred method of interaction; that one must criticize and argue to get his or her…

Deborah Tannen, a professor at Georgetown University, spends her career researching language and the way people use it in all walks of life. In this particular article, Tannen argues that classroom dynamics are predominantly male which leaves female students with a disadvantage. Throughout this article, she explains the masculine classroom dynamics and how her research has caused her to change her teaching style. In the beginning of the article, Tannen conveys the fact that class discussions…

In Deborah Tannen’s article “The Argument Culture,” she states that due to the ways that society has changed it seems as if we only know how to argue and criticize. Life as we know it tends to revolve around people being partisan in every subject that comes to the table. She explains that“war metaphors pervade our talk and shape our thinking,” (Tannen) trying to mean that everything seems like a battle where there is supposed to be just one winner. Tannen continues with saying that even though…

argument. Ripping apart an argument trying to make the other person feel bad will cause tempers to flare. In her article “The Triumph of the Yell” written by Deborah Tannen, she talked about how almost everything is being argued and she is blaming journalists and politicians for feeding the flame of public arguments. In the article, Tannen talked a lot about a “culture of critique”. In classes and in the workforce we are expected to use “critical thinking” on someones paper, but what they…

By merely reading the beginning of Deborah Tannen’s, There Is No Unmarked Woman essay, the reader becomes an inevitable perpetrator of Tannen’s concept of “marked women.” Tannen’s central thesis is that women cannot be “unmarked,” which implies that her character is first judged by her appearance, which is subject to judgment in any circumstance. The structure of the essay, which consists of an opening scene that takes place in a conference room with four women (including Tanner) along with…