You Just Don ’t Understand by Deborah Tannen‚ Ph.D. William Morrow and Company‚ 1990 Reviewed by Laura Morrison That men and women are on different wavelengths when it comes to communicating is probably not news to you. However‚ "Can We Talk?" the cover story of the December issue of New Age Journal‚ provides some excellent new perspectives on this age-old problem. The author‚ Peggy Taylor‚ interviewed sociolinguist Deborah Tannen‚ who has written a book called You Just Don ’t Understand: Women
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Critique on Genderlect Styles. Deborah Tannen once quote “saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same way women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball”. From here‚ it shows that men and women have their own culture of communication and its different from each other. She mentioned it as ’cross-cultural communication’ between this two gender. Its not about words which comes out from their mouth‚ its about their manners
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ask for help and you can get it. Furthermore‚ you can share with her problems. On other hand‚ men are aware that by admitting ignorance and asking for information. So it makes sense for him to preserve his independence and self-esteem. ( Deborah Tannen‚ 1990) Secondly‚ nowadays a lot a lot successful or brave women are still growing up in the world. They make the women so proud about them. Even though the men really admire them about what they did. For example: Liliane Bettencourt: She
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Examinations Certain forms of rhetoric may seem like they are set in concrete‚ but this is not true. The 75 Readings essays “The Plague‚” “Once More to the Lake‚” and “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” are labeled as a narrative‚ a description and an exposition respectively. The essays are much like human beings in that‚ labels are no more than mere words that help divide them into certain categories that they only kind of fit into. The lines that divide essays into their categories
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grammar they use are the same. Deborah Tannen‚ whose book‚ You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation‚ was on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly four years and brought gender differences in communication style to the general public. Tannen contends that differences between the communication styles of women and men are the result of more than culture and socialization‚ but are inherent in the basic make up of each gender. (Tannen‚ 1990) Taking a more scholarly
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will give you from the article “Sex‚ Lies and Conversation”‚ by Deborah Tannen‚ you as the wife‚ should be able to understand that both of you are different with communication. The differences in women and men are caused because of the way they were when they were children‚ they usually “tend to play with children of their own gender‚ and their sex-separate groups have different organizational structures and interactive norms” (Tannen 1). You don’t have to get a divorce‚ it’s a very common misunderstanding
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Communication in the Modern World The article “The Argument Culture”‚ written by Deborah Tannen‚ the tendency of the American culture to encourage aggressive two-sided debates over issues is examined. Tannen proposes that communication and effective listening in our society needs to be more productive .In the past‚ a conversation among people did not need to have a purpose other than to inform each other‚ but now conversations are presented as a standoff between two opposing parties. However
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the actual interviewer? There is a stigma of normalcy in the adult world where every person (whether publicly or privately) is stereotyped‚ translating to no true freedom of self-expression. Deborah Tannen‚ the author of “There is No Unmarked Woman‚” talks about the traits that people are stereotyped on
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play as children‚ how they organize themselves within these games‚ how differently boys and girls communicate with each other while playing these games and what research suggests these differences in communication style actually mean. C. [source] Deborah Tannen’s studies found specific gender differences between men and women regarding communication style. I will list at least five of the contrasts in communication styles from Tannens’s research. {Consider listing just two or three and then
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would be the best way for the students to stay engaged in subjects that they might “dislike.” Tannen and Nathan both touch on the different conversational styles of men and women‚ of the conversational styles in and out of the classroom‚ and how it has become a problem in the class room. Working more with the students’ styles and preferences is the key to closing the conversational gaps presented by Tannen and Nathan‚ and help students participate more in class‚ but it allows the students to feel more
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