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because we’re often misunderstood‚ passive‚ and sensitive. Women should change their communication because women tend to be more emotional. Men often use a woman’s emotional state as an advantage to make her feel misunderstood. According to Deborah Tannen she says “Had she realized he was going criticize her and not ask her to reciprocate‚ she would never have asked in the first place.’’(367) when women are in an emotional state of mind we tend to miscommunicate which causes us to be misunderstood
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current divorce rate is nearly fifty percent? In the article “Sex‚ Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?”‚ by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes the reasons why men and women have different ways of communicating with each other. Tannen also argues that the lack of communication is breaking marriages. Tannen describes that the differences in communication start at an early age. For young boys‚ doing things together builds friendship. By having a large group
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important life skill that helps to people connect by building respect and trust; it can resolve differences in the environment. In Deborah Tannen’s essay “Sex‚ Lies and Conversations” she highlights the different styles of communication of man and woman. Tannen opens her essay with an anecdote that grabs the reader’s attention with her own personal experiences. Tannen discusses how men and women communicate with each other‚ how different the ways of communications for opposite sexes are‚ and how this
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of the Yell‚ written in 1994‚ Deborah Tannen details the truths about public discourse in a well organized and factual manner. She makes a forceful claim that public discourse has degenerated into verbal fist-fights which are not effective in problem solving. She exemplifies her statements with facts and personal experiences. She also applies the universal intellectual standards of clarity‚ depth‚ accuracy‚ logic and fairness. With this thought provoking essay‚ Tannen exposes the dangers of continuing
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best-selling author‚ Deborah Tannen explains how “The Argument Culture” wants us to accept that by creating conflict is the best way of getting things done with an adversarial disposition. An essay taken from her book‚ The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue (1988)‚ Tannen expresses her views on having adversarial dialogue between two sides has weakened communication in our society. Although‚ we live in a society where we are free to express our conflicts openly‚ Tannen argues that as a
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from 7000-10‚000 words‚ whereas a woman can speak anywhere from 20‚000-24‚000 words. Thousands upon thousands of words are thrown out of the human brains‚ but how many of those are truly understood? More importantly‚ how many of those are not? In Deborah Tannen ’s essay‚ "Sex‚ Lies‚ and Conversation‚" pathos and logos are dropped in bombshells in order for the reader to feel accessible to such information. She poses the question‚ "Why is it so hard to talk to my spouse?" Through various statistics and
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Unmarked Woman” By: Deborah Tannen Essay Analysis Who are you? Are you a unique individual? Does your appearance really reflect you? Deborah Tannen’s “There Is No Unmarked Woman” exemplifies how normal it is in this society for women to be superficially judged and “marked” on the basis of appearance. This is in contrast to men‚ who are given the social option to remain incomparably “unmarked” by attire. Tannen uses two specific term throughout her entire essay‚ marked and unmarked. Tannen analyzes our
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Don ’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation‚ Deborah Tannen argues even further about the differences between the backgrounds of men and women. "If women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy‚ while men speak and hear a language of status and independence‚ then communication between men and women can be like cross-cultural communication‚ prey to a clash of conversational styles." (Tannen - You Just Don ’t Understand 42) Tannen ’s main point is that men and women are focused on
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According to the author Deborah Tannen the article‚ Sex‚ Lies‚ and conversation" is about how differently men and women perceive conversation in their relationship. She states that lack of conversation is wreaking havoc within marriages. She explains how the way men and women communicate differs but the meaning is the same She also researched how men communicate amongst the same gender group and around their wives and girlfriends and concluded that many men pay attention even when they look as though
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