Sociolinguistics Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Genderlects.

Sociolinguistics Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Genderlects.
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Genderlects: Wordy Women and Mute Men

Summary: This is a research paper about Deborah Tannen's essay "Rapport-talk and Report-talk. This essay discusses the different styles of how men and women talk. Men are found to be public speakers, while women are private speakers.
Genderlects: Wordy Women and Mute Men

Who exactly does more talking, women or men? This is not a plausible question because women and men communicate in different ways. Women are intimate and are comfortable with private speaking. Men, on the other hand, use conversation to get the spotlight on them, and therefore; men ten to do more public speaking. These two ways of communications can be called report-talk and rapport-talk. "Men and women create gender. Within these two distinct beings we can separate cultural communication distinctions that make each man or woman who they are." (Nofel)

Women are the ones who most often use the language of rapport to communicate. By using rapport, women feel that they can make connections with the people they speak to and can define relationships with others. As children, girls have always denounced the girls that try to act better and stand out...

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