Dr. Deborah Karr
English 0711
Sep.21, 2014
Response of Women Talk Too Much In the article “Women Talk Too Much” by Janet Holmes, she starts with the question “Do women talk more than men?” and also showing the different types of Proverbs to improve this stereotype. Later than she uses certain example and evidence to against this view of women talk too much. Holmes generally shows people the facts of this stereotype and clearly distinguish the “perceptions” and “implication” throughout the history, and our misunderstanding about “women always talking more” will be fix by reading the article. Throughout the whole article, we can see Holmes had a really clear organization. Each section had clear subtitle with particular evidence showing from the first sentence of each paragraph, than she take out the examples in second paragraph to support her ideas and make the claim, that’s really logically and But somehow, when she talk about the her “New Zealand study project” in section one “The Evidence” ,she mentioned about “ Margret Franken” that really confused people, we will asking who is Margret Franken? Maybe she is a waitress or maybe she is a professor, but whatever who she is, Holmes haven’t give us the specific title of Margret, that was one thing to make the weakness part of the section. The title of the article “He says, she says: gender differences in discourse” was really interesting , coming with a very common stereotype in everywhere of the world, that is really catch people’s attention and letting them thinking about these question. And by using academic words In the different section, she all mention one point is “ different factors will determine which gender talking more” For example, in the section “What is the purpose of the Talk?” shown that evidence is in fact men more likely become the dominate one during the conversation , especially in front of the public . Holmes also make an opposite side of this view by