Gender and communication
Introduction
A catalog which recently arrived at my house advertises T-
shirts and bumperstickers popularizing the words of feminist
scholars Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler: "Feminism is the
radical notion that women are people."(1) Indeed, sometimes I
think we've spent the last two millenn....
Gender and language use in G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
In G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion, Professor Higgins attempts to transform Eliza Doolittle ( a florist) from a perfect representative of the Cockney speaking community into what he thinks a `lady` should be in many respects including in terms of language use. Colonel Pickering (the professors friend) treats....
Hear What I Am Really Trying To Say,
Tannen’s (1990) book, “You Just Don’t Understand,” explains heterogeneous facts about men and women’s communication styles. Tannen says once these gender differences are sorted out, men and women can recognize and understand how to confront real conflicts, rather than f....
How do males and females approach academic study?
Males and females have different communication methods, because they learn different ways of having conversation from their peers when they are children. Similarly, they have different attitudes to learning. Nowadays, there is still a stereotype which says girls are responsible for staying at home t....
Misunderstanding Electronic Messages
E-mail, including text messaging, has become one of the most popular forms of communication in our time. It has become so popular, in fact, that some would question how we as a society survived before it. The electronic messages that follow are actual messages that we exchanged between July 11, 2007....
The Qualms of Communication
"He never talks to me!" That phrase is the most common complaint that women have about men. 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 prompted diverse opinions from various authors over the years. Debora....
You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen
Women and men live in two different worlds. These different worlds make them have different point of view about something, which can lead to misunderstanding in conversation. In You Just Dont Understand, Deborah Tannen differentiated women and men, socially, in three aspects. Those aspects are....
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