Deborah Tannen Sex Sighs And Conversation Summary

Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, in her article “Sex, Sighs, and Conversation: Why Men and Women Can’t Communicate” explains and reveals differences in language use between men and women. A reason men do not like to ask questions, and women are fine with it, just like so many other trivial differences between sexes, is because of the different language each sex uses. Deborah Tannen gives an extremely well example to support her main idea where a man and a woman were in a car that had been driving the same area for a half hour. The most memorable source of mutual frustration in Tannen’s article is about “troubles talk”. She manages to highlight its role with supporting details for everyone who reads even