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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Gender Differences In the excerpt from the book‚ Men Are from Mars‚ Women Are from Venus‚ author John Gray discusses the stark differences between men and women. He states that the personality traits between men and women are so dissimilar‚ that each sex might as well have originated from the planets‚ Mars and Venus‚ respectively. He explains that men value power and achievement‚ and they choose certain occupations and offer others solutions to their problems based on these values. Comparatively
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and five both tell the story and account of Deborah. Even though they both are about the same set of events‚ there are still very glaring differences in them. The first is that they are different types of literary genre. Chapter four is merely a retelling of the story of Deborah‚ while chapter five is “The Song of Deborah and Barak.” They both tell the story of what happened‚ they just have different literary styles of doing so. Also‚ the song of Deborah is incredibly poetic in nature and it even
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University of San Carlos – Technological Center ENGL 102N – Introduction to Linguistics A Written Report on Pragmatics Presented by: John Reyrani E. Cadeleña Mark Christian A. Generalao Jan Kentrex C. Palalay AB Linguistics & Literature – III Presented to: Ms. Cindy Augusto‚ MA 12:30-1:30 PM MWF PRAGMATICS A subfield of linguistics that studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation
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Pragmatics First published Tue Nov 28‚ 2006 When a diplomat says yes‚ he means ‘perhaps’; When he says perhaps‚ he means ‘no’; When he says no‚ he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no‚ she means ‘perhaps’; When she says perhaps‚ she means ‘yes’; When she says yes‚ she is not a lady. Voltaire (Quoted‚ in Spanish‚ in Escandell 1993.) These lines — also attributed to H. L. Mencken and Carl Jung — although perhaps politically incorrect‚ are surely correct in reminding us that more
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emotional situations. Gender display rules are a set of rules that usually either male or female follow in order to fit their specific gender script in society. It is stated in the textbook that women talk more about feelings and emotions and use communication for emotional expression more then men‚ and because of this females express themselves facially more than men. (Devito‚ 148) The research article I chose to summarize for part two of the textbook is titled‚ " Gender Difference in Facial Reaction
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1 Types of pragmatics 1.2 Pragmatics and linguistics 1.3 Structure of the book 2 Semantics and Pragmatics 2.1 The borderline 2.2 Sentences and utterances 2.3 Language and logic 2.4 Mood 2.5 The explicit and the implicit 2.6 Presupposition 2.7 Deixis 19 19 21 23 27 29 32 39 3 History of Pragmatics 3.1 Structuralism 3.2 Logical positivism 3.3 Ordinary language philosophy 3.4 The beginnings of pragmatics 44 44 47 49 52 4 ‘Classical’ Pragmatics 4.1 Speech
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and Nurture: A Gender Sandwich It has always been said that both nature and nurture are the main ingredients in shaping a person’s behavior for the rest of their lives‚ like the meats and the cheeses to your favorite sub sandwich. Deborah Blum seems to think that not only do these things greatly effect human behavior but also gender identities. She gives the reader a new perspective on nature and nurture‚ arguing that it is way more than just nurture that paves the path of gender roles. Blum’s essay
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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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