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Genderlect Styles by Deborah Tannen

Cultural Differences

Women's Genderlect

Genderlect Theory

Genderlect: the concept that male and female communication are two separate cultural dialects

This theory believes that male and female often get into conflict about miscommunication because they don't consider their cross communication as cross-cultured

Cultural differences:

Women communicate to gain human connections

vs

Men communicate to gain status

Genderlect Style of Women: Rapport talk

Speech style that helps establish connections with other

Genderlect Style of Men: Report Talk

Speech style to give information, win arguments, and direct attention

Differences include: speaking, story telling, listening, asking questions, dealing with conflicts

Speaking:

Use of rapport talk to make connections with others

Story telling:

Usually tell stories about others to express community

Tend to talk themselves down to be on the same level as the listener in order to better connection

Listening:

Hold eye contact, offer head nods, give responses (cooperative overlap) to show they are paying attention

Cooperative overlap is a supportive interruption intended to show agreement with the speaker

Asking Questions:

Women ask questions to establish connections with others

Use tag questions when giving declarative statements to allow the recipient to give their own opinions or reduce the weight of potential disagreement

Conflict:

Sees conflict as a threat to avoid for the goodness of their connection with others

Men's Genderlect

Critiques

References

Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2014). A first look at communication theory. (9th ed.). New, York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Speaking:

Use report talk to increase status over others

Story telling:

Tell jokes to up one another, challenging if anyone can do better than them

Tend to talk themselves up by making themselves the heroes of their stories who overcome obstacles on their own

Listening:

Sees cooperative overlap as attempting to take control of the conversation

Asking Questions:

Don't ask questions because they desire to feel self-sufficient

Considers tag questions to make the person seem indecisive

Conflict:

Comfortable with conflict because it gives them a chance to increase their status

Proof to Gendelect theory may by confirmation bias

Tannen had suggested we use the aha factor to test the validity of this theory

Aha factor: a subjective standard ascribing validity to an idea when it resonates with one's personal experience

May be harmful self-fulling prophecy that causes men and women to act according to the descriptions

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