Deborah Tannen

theory by linguistic professor, Dr. Deborah Tannen. Her communication theory,…

As I read Deborah Tannen's essay "But What Do You Mean?" she concentrates on several conversational styles between women and men. I feel that her assessment was more so unresearched, because intending to point out where men and women fail when they communicate; Tannen actually gives a more one sided understanding of styles. Sadly, from reading her essay, she tends to show a lot of bias when she writes. And even though, she does deal with several conversational styles and examples, Tannen is…

In The Argument Culture, Deborah Tannen writes about how arguing is negatively impacting people’s spirits. However, without debates and argument the United States (US) would not have come as far as it has today, and would cause people to be accused of a fallacious wrong-doing. The argument culture and unending debates might seem to have a negative effect, but can actually be beneficial to the well-being of people. Argument has caused the US to move forward as a country without destroying our…

Lakoff makes an argument demonstrating the manner in which expletives in varying strengths are generally perceived and when they are considered socially acceptable (284-5). Particles such as "darn", "oh dear", and "goodness" are described as weaker expletives while words such as "shit" and "damn" are described as stronger expletives. She further explains that while weaker expletives are typically considered socially acceptable when women use them (but only when the situation is not a serious…

Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, evaluate the difference between direct and Indirect communication and its effectiveness towards peoples’ way of life with her essay How to Give Orders Like a Man. Tannen challenges the belief that talking in an indirect way indubitably reveals an absence of self-confidence or shows a powerless individual who has no real authority. There are multiple aspects touching on how each individual communicates with others, such as…

leading to many conflicts and misunderstandings. Similarly, sociolinguist Deborah Tannen–– also explores the differences in male and female’s communication style in her 1990 published book “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”. Her aim is to help both sex have better understanding about each other’s style so as to minimize disputes and improve relationships under different social situation. Firstly, Tannen…

Deborah Tannen, in “Sex, Lies, and Conversation,” an essay published in the 1990 The Washington Post, addressed misunderstandings to curb controversies regarding a chapter from Tannen’s 1986 book That’s Not What I Meant!. Tannen, a teacher at Georgetown University provides the public with scholarly research in the battlefield of communication between the sexes; bringing to light the stereotypical debate to whom is at fault in the negative communicational skills that endanger relationships.…

women learn to speak in different ways because they are following the cultural standard of their gender ( Tannen 66). Tannen is assuming that we as a society do not control culture and whatever is the norm, we must follow the guidelines for our respective genders. If she does not assume this then she is not addressing why culture has constructed these very different worlds for men and women. Tannen states in her essay that women use "rapport talk" and men use "report talk" accounting for the…

peacefully. In the articles “Learning True Tolerance”, “Just Walk on By”, and “Sex, Lies, and Conversations”, authors Engardio, Staples, and Tannen respectively propose different ways of dealing with intolerance. In “Sex, Lies, and Conversation”, Deborah…

Jonathan Konzol, in his article of “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” failed to talked about schools that have equal amount of students of mixed racial schools. He also failed to give examples of schools that have majority of its students are White and any other race other than Hispanics and Blacks. He only talked about public schools, and forgot to mention any private schools. Another one that Konzol failed to talked about in his article is the problems and…