“But What do You Mean?” is an excerpt from Deborah Tannen’s book Talking from 9 to 5 for Redbook Magazine. Tannen begins by explaining the simple business communications that ensue between people and the different ways simple business communications are interpreted by men and women. Women seem to take others feelings into consideration when speaking with them‚ whereas men want to one-up their position or maintain their position. These differences are divided into seven areas of miscommunication.
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and to win the heart of the one that they love. You Just Don’t Understand Deborah Tannen is the author of the novel‚ “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation.” In this book‚ she talks about the various meanings of communication between men and women. Her studies show that men and women use compatible expressions and somehow can still have different reactions and responses to phrases of similar meaning. Tannen found that most men like to take control in a conversation and see it as
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In the article‚ “But What Do You Mean?”‚ author Deborah Tannen discusses what she has observed to be differences in ways that women and men communicate. She concludes by stating that neither communication style in incorrect‚ however‚ to alleviate miscommunication women and men should use language that is understood by both parties. While I don’t disagree with Tannen’s observations I find some flaws with her solution. Women and men are not significantly different‚ as recent brain studies have shown
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Analyzing Deborah Tannen’s “How to Give Orders Like a Man” In Deborah Tannen’s “How to Give Orders Like a Man” she describes and challenges several assumptions regarding people who communicate directly and indirectly. Through several examples‚ she is able to effectively communicate to the reader how several different assumptions can be made for both direct and indirect speakers. Tannen uses “How to Give Orders Like a Man” to debunk and clarify that the method of communication people choose to
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million bucks‚ I’d pay Deborah Tannen to sit by me at all times‚ providing simultaneous translation‚ in her graceful‚ intelligent‚ and persuasive way‚ of what people are really saying when I think they’re saying something else. Not having a million bucks‚ I rely on her books — popular‚ accessible‚ inviting presentations that make scholarly research look like the most fun a girl can have short of movie reviewing — as guides to communication. In You Just Don’t Understand‚ Tannen analyzed male and female
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field of language and gender is Deborah Tannen’s non-fiction book‚ You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (henceforth also referred to as YJDU). Tannen‚ a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University who specializes in discourse‚ posited in this book that because of differences in basic underlying cultural understandings between men and women‚ their speech was like an interlanguage communication. While this piece draws on research done by Tannen and other researchers at the time
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been encouraging students to participate in class discussion more‚ and even including participation as a graded assignment. However‚ many factors‚ such as gender and type of discussion‚ may affect how much a student will participate. In Deborah Tannen’s book‚ You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation‚ she discusses how gender may play a key role in class participation.
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Tannen’s “Fighting for Our Lives” touches on how our culture is seen as an argument culture where there are two distinct sides to an argument seen as being either right or wrong‚ without a middle ground. The argument culture‚ Tannen explains‚ urges us to approach the world in an adversarial frame of mind: the best way to approach any sort of idea‚ dialogue‚ or conversation is to set it up as a debate. This tactic does not solve any residing problems‚ by ignoring what the other person has to say
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In the essays “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen and “Ways Of Seeing” by John Berger‚ the authors try to convey a similar point‚ but in two different contexts. Tannen describes a conference meeting and how she views others around her (Tannen 444). Berger on the other hand uses European oil paintings to show how only women are judged by the male eyes in society‚ Unlike a man‚ a woman has two elements to her identity‚ “the surveyor and the surveyed” (Berger 5). He also goes on to note
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Different?” “Boys will be boys” (Tannen 193) is a statement is said quite frequently. Boys can sometimes be more outspoken in any kind of group setting‚ whereas girls are more than likely to keep their opinion to themselves. In How Male and Female Students Use Language differently‚ written by Deborah Tannen‚ we are giving a look into how because boys and girls behave differently there is a reflection of that in the classrooms. Through an experiment in a classroom setting Tannen was able to gather how differently
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