Language And Gender Of The Workplace

Women’s desire for connection, men’s desire for status. Women engage in communication to build and maintain relationships with others. By contrast, men are more likely to engage in talk only when it makes them look good, strong, or independent. Second, Style of Communicating: Women use rapport talk, men use report talk. Women express emotions, share personal feelings, relate stories, and listen with emotions, that is rapport talk. Men engage in competitive joking and definite speech that control of the conversation is report talk. The third one is speech communities. The different ways women and men talk reflect their separate cultures. The role of women and men in social development is different, thus they have different social roles. Last but not least, Language. We speak the same language, but each gender has its own words. Each gender has its own set of vocabulary and preferred topics, and they use spoken language differently. Men talk to get things done, however, women talk to interact with

In a study by (citation) females and males rated communication styles by gender tended to rate females as better at non-verbal communication and males as more likely to display loud disruptive behaviours. Through observational studies these were confirmed to be significant showing that how we view genders does impact communication styles. For me, I do see these behaviours in my life and find I am able to communicate and read body language very well. In a study by (citation) female managers were more likely to use longer sentences, sub-sentences and more adjectives. (How this affects my

In Deborah Tannen’s article, “But What Do You Mean?” she enumerates seven different ways that women and men tend to have a kind of struggle. Tannen discusses how the men and women have different ways of speaking. The seven main differences are classified and divided into: apologies, criticism, thank-yous, fighting, praise, complaints, and jokes. First, men don’t correctly interpret apologies; they often implicate blame with apology, synonymous with putting oneself down. On the other hand, women apologize to calm other people. Second, criticism from men is straight and without a filter; women do not go as hard in their criticisms in order to not destroy that people feelings. Third, most of women use “thanks” automatically; it is easy for them to express their gratitude, although for men it doesn’t work like that. Fourth, during discussion of ideas, men would go as tough and merciless as they can, arguing every opinion or idea in the strongest terms. On the other hand, women would take that arguing as a personal attack. Fifth, men believe that the fact of saying nothing is a way to praise, while women every time they think they have done a good job, praise is expected. Sixth, men interpret complaints as a way to request the solution of a problem; women complain in order to sympathize and feel sorry for other people. Seventh and last, the sense of humor is also different. Sometimes women can view men’s jokes as being offensive. Men’s humor consists more of

In her July 2007 article “WHO DOES THE TALKING HERE?,” published in The Washington Post, Linguistic Professor Deborah Tannen expresses her expert insight to the common assumption that women speak more than men (356). According to Prof. Tannen, women, being concerned with building and maintaining relationships, use “rapport-talk” as opposed to men, who use more of a “Report-talk” style of communicating (357). The well-published author contends that merely counting words is insufficient for gaining understanding of the existing gender bias. However, we can gain (insight) to the differences in gender communication by analyzing “ when” people choose to speak, as well as, “why” people choose to speak (358).

Men and women speak the same language, but there are multiple speculations that women talk differently compared to men. Women are constantly seen as super talkative, while men try to control conversations. Deborah Cameron, a professor of language at Oxford University, wrote an essay titled, “What Language Barrier?” where she discusses the similarities and differences men and women have when they talk. Cameron begins her essay by stating women and men do not communicate differently, she claims, “The idea that men and women ‘speak different languages’ itself has become dogma” (Cameron 268). Cameron believes there are no differences in the way males and females talk and she continues to prove her claim by using examples of the female/male brain, power between sexes, and research. She essentially discusses the biological and social reasons why we talk and how gender does not matter when communicating. She concludes the folk-belief that women talk more than men is only a social prejudice; therefore, it depends on each person whether they talk more or less (Cameron 267-273). I disagree with Cameron, the dogmas that women are more talkative and men are controlling are true because there is a difference in empathy, power, and topics that allow us to become better in different areas when having conversations.

In “Sex, lies and communication” by Deborah Tannen she discussed how men and women are different when they have a conversation; both of them have different type of communication. When men and women communicate they do it different, women tend to give detail when they speak in other hand men go straight to the point. Women and men have a lot of misunderstanding because they are so different when they talk. Women and men are different too because their brain. Their brain is develop and connected different which make them each genre at better thing than the opposite sex. How they communicate is different; also, the way their brain is develop make them better and certain things.

First, Tannen points out that men and women communicate differently. We do not only differ in the way we speak, but why we communicate. Women communicate for intimacy, while men communicate for information. She uses Eleanor Maccoby’s research, a professor from Stanford University, is most influenced by the social structure of peer interaction, which mean that girls tend to play with girls and boys with boys. “I believe these systematic differences in childhood socialization make talk between men and women like cross-cultural communication, heir to all the attraction and pitfalls of that enticing but difficult enterprise. My research on men’s and women’s conversation uncovered patterns similar to those described for children’s group” (Tannen 382). This means that the problem with the communication gap between

Gender can be a barrier to communication, something that is very important within an organizational setting. Male-female communication is actually an example of cross-cultural communication (ORGB.) An example that the book gives of a difference in communication due to gender is the way men and women typically speak to each other. Women would speak facing each other, while men would simply sit side by side during a conversation.

Furthermore, the different usages of vocabulary in various languages construct the gender gap. For instance, “men who play theatrical roles are ‘actors’, whereas women are ‘actresses’”, and “handsome” is used for “a masculine adjective”; beautiful is used for a feminine adjective. (Carpenter 93). Therefore, Carpenter states that “the way we use and perceive language every day helps to construct and reinforce our divided, gendered, binocular vision of humankind” (93).

After reading the language and gender section of our textbook I found very interesting what Robin Lakoff proposes about the set of traits which distinguish women’s language from men’s language. Moreover, Deborah Tannen gave great examples of the differences of women’s and men’s language. In addition, I enjoyed watching the video about how children communicate. Bases on what Lakoff proposed, the textbook mentions that women use a greater use of hedges and indirect speech acts. Also, that woman used fewer taboo terms for sexual and bodily functions than men do. Moreover, that boys talk more than girls and that teachers are likely to give more attention to boys. In addition, Women like to speak in a private/small way and men speak in a public

Male and female differ in their use of communication because their reasons for communicating are different. Men

Robin Lakoff found that women’s language lacks authority when compared to that used by men and she believes that women use many techniques in their speech that are deficient to men 's speech. In the Deficit Model Robin Lakoff describes male language as stronger, more prestigious and more desirable. She argues that women are socialised into behaving like 'ladies '. She gives examples of language techniques women use that make their language seem deficient these include, fillers, hedges e.g. “sort of”, “you know”, intensifiers e.g. “so”, weak expletive terms e.g. “oh dear”, empty adjectives e.g. charming, sweet, hypercorrect grammar and tag questions which shows uncertainty e.g. “isn’t it?” Moreover she interprets that women use more precise colour terms e.g. mauve, magneta.

In response to what we have discussed thus far in Interpersonal Communication, I would like to further explore the idea of gender in the interpersonal communication arena. As was said in class, ”gender influences cultural perspectives.” Gender also influences how we view ourselves in society. On the flip side, I’ve seen how society can mold the way we label ourselves in terms of gender.

Deborah Tannen is the author of the book You Just Don't Understand where she analyzes the different meanings of communication between men and women. Her research shows that women and men use the same words and phrases and yet can interpret and react to those same words and phrases differently. Tannen compares the two sexes to find men use their conversation as a type of competition or to preserve their independence. For example, men talk about their knowledge regarding sports, cars, women, exc. Meanwhile, women try to foster intimacy through communication. For instance, women often talk and relate on a personal level. Throughout Tannen's book she uses "cross-cultural communication" to describe the differences between the language of

Traditional thoughts on women’s communications show a notably stereotypical demonstration of ineffective communication characteristics. These characteristics include verbosity, constrained vocabulary, and indirect requests (Thorne and Henley, 1975). The authors at this point question the validity of the stereotypes in regard to writing style and quality. They assert that folk-linguistics, or the common beliefs about a