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    members can often be the most complex relationships. Deborah Tannen tries to shed some light on family relationships in her book, I Only Say This because I Love You. Deborah Tannen has primarily studied linguistics, but she has also written books explaining communications of all types. In this book, she focuses on families and explains how to understand the relationships between family members. Each chapter goes into detail about individual relationships, such as sibling, spousal, and parent-child relationships. She also expresses how to keep relationships happy and healthy, how to deal with arguments. Her book focuses on understanding family members and how to keep relationships between them healthy. Chapter one: “I Can’t Even Open My Mouth” The main focus in the first chapter of the book has to do with metamessages in conversations. Tannen defines a metamessage as a “meaning that is not said” (Tannen D., 2001, p. 7). In other words, metamessages are the tones that one uses, the phrases and languages one uses, and the implication of the words. Metamessages are the actual meanings behind what someone says. Tannen focuses on family relationships in this chapter. She mentions that family members tend to criticize…

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    The essay The Better For My Foes written by Elouise Bell. Bell emphasizes the importance of opposition. Relaying common mistakes Americans and Mormons participate in deeming all opposition as pure evil. Bell draws a light on personal and intellectual growth that can be erected from opposition, but demonstrates the consequences of asserting it. Agonism In The Academy by Deborah Tannen reveals the weak link in the educational system. Portraying the combat like atmosphere encouraged and exposing…

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    Deborah Tannen has researched the importance of education and narrowed the topic to be influenced on the gender differences. The article written by Deborah Tannen titled “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently” captures students’ participation in a classroom setting. It can be overlooked that gender has no effect with their education, but is explained as why engagement correlates with the gender of the students’. Tannen researched and observed different effects involving…

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    According to Deborah Tannen (2015), the genderlect styles theory of communication suggests that there are differences in the way men and women communicate or miscommunicate. Tannen goes on to state in the book, A First Look at Communication Theory, “male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication” (Griffin et al., 2015, p. 432). Several factors are included within a conversation to help people understand a message. Some of these factors include loudness, softness, pauses, silence,…

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    natural presumption is proven by the individual research Daniel Goleman and Deborah Tannen logically shared. These authors present multiple misunderstandings of the opposite sex and how reasons such as socialization and communication lead to these misinterpretations. Our…

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    Language, and how we use it, is an instrumental communication tool in everyday life. Although people feel they are effectively communicating with each other, misunderstandings do take place. Because communication is a two-way process, both parties participating must be able to understand the message projected by the other. If there happens a barrier, such as gender interfering with that message, misinterpretations can take place. Deborah Tannen proposed, “Male-female conversation is…

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    begins in childhood, and understanding the interpretation correctly will require a certain type of response. Deborah Tannen suggest that men and women differ in cultural language patterns, specifically with regards to conversational rituals. To elaborate Tannen suggest that men use language to negotiate their ‘status’ and to protect their independence. That is, men (boys) perceive that there is a hierarchical structure social order and not every man (boy) is equal. Due to this notion of…

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    Recently, a study was conducted in Professor English-Bircher’s Writing Composition class relating to a personality test. For each student, the test concluded scores for five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Interesting results came out of myself and the class. What was found was that this information relates to Deborah Tannen’s writing on why men and women cannot communicate easily with each other. Our results agree that the reason…

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    language communication. Both sexes have a different way of communicating within their sex-separate peer groups or in their classroom setting. Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of “How male and female students use language differently” informs that men students are more upfront and louder in classroom’s debates than female individuals who show more of a reserved personality. Although, Tannen has great main points such as the reason women have great…

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    Femininity as a Norm When asked to describe the average American the most common description given is of a white male. If you consult statistics 50.8% of Americans are Women, yet a men are still the representative. In her essay There is No Unmarked Woman Deborah Tannen claims that the preference for men as the norm, is both unreasonable, and harmful to women. She bolsters this accounts of her with personal experience, and a discussion of language and science in regards to gender. Tannen opens…

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