The Gender Struggle: Communicating in Relationships
Date Submitted: 05/06/2003 20:07:59
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 4 pages (1223 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 4 pages (1223 words)
How do men and women communicate clearly when most of their ways of communicating are so different? In today's society, language plays a major role in defining gender. "Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication," according to Deborah Tannen in her article "Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers.(491) I believe this statement is true. Men and women are in two completely different worlds when it comes to communicating.
John Stossel, with ABC News, conducted a …
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…be able to use those to better ourselves when we are talking to the opposite sex.
Works Cited Page Stossel, John. "Communication Gap Boys and Girl Get Different Messages About Speaking Their Minds." ABC News.com 14 April, 2003. 2020. 18 March, 2004 <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/Living/familyfix_genderspeak030414.html>.
Tannen, Deborah. "Talk In the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers." Ed. Dolores LaGuardia, and Hans P. Guth American Voices Culture and Community 5th Edition. Boston: McGraw, 2003.
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