The Unseen Shame of Public vs. Private Conversations
If you were to ask most people what the word “language” represented, you would likely be given a general and vague explanation such as, a system of letters and symbols with corresponding rules that when arranged to form words, and properly and uniformly pronounced allow individuals to communicate within their circles. The ability to communicate clearly is part of what holds a society together, it allows us to live and work together, and without it most of what we know would cease to exist. Imagine a group of men unable to effectively communicate trying to construct a building; playing “charades” simply would not suffice.
While it’s true that Language has been a joining force amongst humans …show more content…
Private Conversations. To accomplish this, I will divide my paper into four sections. I will first compare the similarities in the Authors writing styles, so that I can set the tone, and acquaint you with how I made my deductions. In the Second section of my paper, I will focus on the authors experiences regarding Public Conversations. The Third, section of this paper will focus oppositely on, Private Conversations. And before I finish with my conclusion, I will briefly discuss the differences that I felt the Authors depicted of their Private and Public …show more content…
When Tannen writes about marriage, and states that “ American men tend to talk more than woman in public”, she passively depicts how many woman can be ostracized in western society; because of the misnomer “ woman talk more than men” has stigmatized. Tragically, it has only been a relatively small period of time, that most of modern society has permitted woman to voice their opinions, and consider them to be of the same value as a man’s. And sadly, woman’s struggles with private and public communication, are still highly prevalent in many American
If you were to ask most people what the word “language” represented, you would likely be given a general and vague explanation such as, a system of letters and symbols with corresponding rules that when arranged to form words, and properly and uniformly pronounced allow individuals to communicate within their circles. The ability to communicate clearly is part of what holds a society together, it allows us to live and work together, and without it most of what we know would cease to exist. Imagine a group of men unable to effectively communicate trying to construct a building; playing “charades” simply would not suffice.
While it’s true that Language has been a joining force amongst humans …show more content…
Private Conversations. To accomplish this, I will divide my paper into four sections. I will first compare the similarities in the Authors writing styles, so that I can set the tone, and acquaint you with how I made my deductions. In the Second section of my paper, I will focus on the authors experiences regarding Public Conversations. The Third, section of this paper will focus oppositely on, Private Conversations. And before I finish with my conclusion, I will briefly discuss the differences that I felt the Authors depicted of their Private and Public …show more content…
When Tannen writes about marriage, and states that “ American men tend to talk more than woman in public”, she passively depicts how many woman can be ostracized in western society; because of the misnomer “ woman talk more than men” has stigmatized. Tragically, it has only been a relatively small period of time, that most of modern society has permitted woman to voice their opinions, and consider them to be of the same value as a man’s. And sadly, woman’s struggles with private and public communication, are still highly prevalent in many American