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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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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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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Rhetorical Analysis of Paired Arguments: Women’s inferiority in math and science Audience Analysis: "Sex Ed at Harvard" by Charles Murray Published in the New York Times‚ Murray is addressing a primarily liberal audience. However‚ it is read by a general audience both liberals and conservatives between the ages of twenty and sixty because it is circulated nationwide and internationally. This newspaper reaches the educated upper‚ middle‚ and lower classes. Murray includes himself in the same
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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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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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and women tend to approach interacting with each other in the work place in the same patterned method. Tannen provides a guide for us to better understand the importance of communicating more effectively in the work place. She explains how verbal interactions could be interpreted in many different ways‚ depending on one’s point of view and which side of the conversation you happen to be on. Tannen delves into seven areas of rituals where men and women differ including; apologies‚ criticism‚ thank-yous
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“Analysis of Why Are Female and Male Language 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
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Hamill used appeals to pity in his argument. His goal is to draw out the reader’s emotions and uses them to his advantage. Hamill cleary uses appeals to pity to catch the reader’s empathy to how drugs can ruin a life. The first thing Hamill writes about is how he talked to a woman who was hooked on crack cocaine; she was young and had three kids. To appeal to you pity for her he gives her backstory: “Her story was the usual tangle of human woe: early pregnancy‚ dropping out of school‚ vanished
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Nicole Carper Professor M. Keith English 1101‚ sec. C20 08 November 2012 An Examination On Sociocultural “Marking” of Women – Rhetorical Analysis of “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tanen What is it that makes a woman a woman‚ or what makes a man a man? Deborah Tannen‚ author and Ph.D. of linguistics‚ investigates this question within the essay‚ “There Is No Unmarked Woman.” An excerpt from a larger publication‚ “Talking from 9 to 5‚” written in 1994‚ “There Is No Unmarked Woman” is
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