Deborah Tannen

For many people, for persuasion to truly be effective, one needs not only facts and credibility, but an appeal to emotion. The Argument Culture does this quite effectively. Deborah Tannen’s use of Pathos in her rhetorical setting is, for the most part, quite effective. Each one gives a new facet to her overall opinion, and can even change the way one might read the paper. There are, of course, some places where this Pathos doesn’t quite work, however including that, her use of pathos greatly…

the other communicator feels he/she has been wronged. In her book, You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen explores why some conversations can be hurtful instead of helpful. While some may question her claims, Tannen’s book gives many examples from personal experiences, other’s experiences, and acclaimed research that supports her postulates. In addition to Tannen’s examples creating credibility, Tannen refers to other books she is known for. She penned the renowned book on communication,…

conflict will begin to form. The idea of conversation is what keeps relationships on good terms, it easy to say men and women have different ideas about conversation. In Deborah Tannen’s article “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” holds key information about how important a conversation can be. Throughout the article Tannen forms different scenarios where a couple may or may not have conversation problems. This article pushes the idea of how each person wants to talk and how they…

In Gender Theorist Judith Lorber’s article, “From Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology,”( 1992) and Linguist Deborah Tannen’s essay, “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently,”(1990) Tannen focuses on the difference in language usage between males, and females in the classroom. Tannen also delves into the limiting qualities of a masculinized debate based environment. In contrast Lorber focuses on revealing gender stereotypes in society, and how these stereotypes limit women in…

According to Audre Lorde. The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: She was born in 1934-19992. She was the Author of numerous collections of poetry and prose, Lord was deeply concerned with issues of class, race, age, gender, culture and health, particularly as they related to the experiences of women. In the 1960. A librarian, writer poet, teacher, feminist and lesbian, Lorde won numerous awards including a National Endowment for the arts grant and the American Library…

the world. However, this is not the case in the academic arena, according to linguistics professor Deborah Tannen. In her essay entitled, “Agonism in the Academy: Surviving the Argument Culture” published in the Chronicle of Higher Education which address the topic of “ritualized combats” in academia. Tannen claims that, “Agonism” is in fact “endemic” and detrimental in fostering a learning…

Higher Learning’s Argument Cluture by Deborah Tannen and The Better for My Foes The role of Opposition by Elouise Bell are both well writien articles. They both have very diffrent views but at the same time have some similaritys. One thing that I noticed when reading that they both talk about heated debate/ agurmnet. When i see those two words togther i think they are similar, as they both result insomething that you are talking about with passion. Tannen uses the phrase heated depate as she…

Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication No one can deny the fact that the study of cross cultural communication contributed to the field of applied linguistics and offered a plethora of examples of different aspects of communication. Deborah Tannen (1984), in her article: The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication has identified eight levels of differences in ways of speaking that differ from one culture to another and which represent the essence of language (ibid, 189). Therefore…

of whom their parents were, as spelled out in his article Class in America (Mantsios 482). Luckily, there are educators like Deborah Tannen out there who have made it their duty to try to convince other educators that students are not a creature of hive mind, and that applying one method of learning or theory of education to every student as a whole is a bad approach (Tannen 541). While it is important to have an idea of how to approach teaching and education in general, generalizing the…

than ever to erase the wage gap. In the article “There is No Unmarked Woman,” Deborah Tannen states that a woman is judged or marked simply for her appearance. In “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates contemplates the shift on white America. The arguments Coates and Tannen both focus on issues on feminism, and both have a significant affect on me, my family, and the world that surrounds us. According to Tannen, I as a woman am already marked — something…