Deborah Tannen

Carroll employs grammatical parallelism ‘One, two! One, two! And through and through’ (line 17) which changes the pace of the poem and demonstrates the parallelism from the boy stood in thought to the boy killing the creature. Deborah Tannen claims that repetition takes a cognitive approach as it relates to human drive to imitate and repeat (Swann, 2006, p.10), repetition is evident in poetry and was evident in our analysis of Jabberwocky therefore it is perceived as creative.…

Using Genderlect Styles and Relational Dialectics to Examine Communication Problems in Marriages Scholar C. Kenemore Winona State University Examining Communication Problems in Marriages using Genderlect Styles and Relational Dialectics. Introduction “Till death do us part” isn’t really the case anymore. In the United States alone, researchers predict that 40-50% of couples getting married will get divorced, and 60% of 2nd marriages will get divorced (Gottman). The average marriage…

Just because of her sexual preference, she was marked, as Deborah Tannen would call it. The fact that she was judged just because she was different and had the courage to follow her heart made society put a mark on her, which is supposed to make us stay away from it, this ‘evil monster’. She was considered less of…

As we delve deeper into our theories on interpersonal communication, we begin to learn more about ourselves and how to interact with the people around us. Whether they are in our lives on a personal, professional or combined capacity. This week I have decided to look at the theories of Interactional View and Genderlect Styles (Griffin, 2015). When we study Interactional View, a theory developed by Paul Watzlawick, we can see how communication has shaped us into the people we are today.…

The one time that I learned and impacted my life drastically was the first year that I moved to the U.S. I learned to talk and I learned to read. People still judge the way I spell, say, or pronounce, a certain word. It used to bother me how others could say “Karen can you say refrigerator” or another word that they knew I struggled to say. As I’ve gotten older I have realized that I was actually ahead of the class by being bilingual. I learned more than they did by the the end of my second…

are used, they can seem rushed or unrelaxed. If long pauses are used, they can seem sluggish or not interested. Pacing in a conversation is a crucial part that is often looked over. Deborah Tannen (2000) talks about this in her text “’Don’t just sit there-interrupt!’ Pacing and Pausing in Conversation Style”. Tannen describes that pacing, tone of voice, pauses, patterns, can convey what a conversations theme will be, without explaining it. Example: We will figure out a joke is a joke without the…

Education When it comes to education, what does it mean to be educated and who decides how students in America receive it? In today’s educational society, there have been many issues that concern student’s views of public education and how it affects them academically and personally. The majority of American students do not always get the opportunity to sit for a while and reflect on the fundamentals that shape the educational system there in today. The essentials that will affect any student…

Diversity within the workplace. Language is diverse in a workplace, although critics argue that language is the same in a workplace because they have several similarities within it. But throughout these similarities, there are many differences lay, and I know this because I have experienced various language type in two different workforces. Belonging to Pizza Hut and Walmart workforces has caused me to be cautious when speaking in different places, since workplace language varies based on…

Passage four is an example of tragedy drama, the extract focuses on a domestic disagreement about the finances of the couple. The themes which run through this extract are representations of gender, and of social class and wealth. Passage one is an example of an epigram poem, its purpose is to invite the reader to the speaker’s home for a dinner party. The piece has similar themes of wealth and social class running through it. The poem follows iambic pentameter which gives the poem a leisurely…

Males are dominant. Females are not. Females are care givers. Males are not. “Act like a man. Stop acting like a girl.” These are just a few examples of gender stereotypes that we are faced with everyday from the time we are born. Gender stereotypes have become an extensive role in today’s society, which has resulted in the expectations of males to act one way, and females to act another. Stereotypes can be seen everywhere from commercials, to children 's’ toys, to movies, to one’s…