Communication In Relationships

             The communication process between men and women has long been an interest for many
             people. The way we speak and why we speak that way, have caused opinions from various
             authors over the years. Deborah Tannen is one such author. Tannen, who has a doctorate in
             linguistics, is a professor at Georgetown University. She has been studying the way people
             communicate and the problems they have communicating with each other for many years. Her
             studies inspired her to write several books on the subject. The article "Put Down That Paper
             and Talk To Me," which appears in the textbook Writing the World, was taken from her best-
             seller You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which was written in 1991.
             Deborah Tannen believes men and women talk differently because they are raised in two
             different conversational cultures and that problems arise because of conversational style. She
             thinks that boys are taught to speak like men and girls taught to talk like women.(9) In the article
             Tannen addresses many of the misgivings of communication, based upon her numerous studies,
             that she believes proves men and women really are taught to talk a certain way.
             In her article Tannen talks about the way males and females talk with the terms "report-talk"
             and "rapport-talk." She says that men speak in "report-talk" which means that they are talking
             mainly to share information.(10) They also use speaking as a way to preserve their
             independence, discuss their relationships, and display their knowledge. Tannen also says that
             men utilize talking mainly as a way to get and keep the attention. Tannen believes the way
             women speak is through "rapport-talk." She thinks that women are speaking to establish
             connections with each other, usually based on similar expe
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