Gender Differences in Communication

2. Guidelines
2 History of the theory and the writer
1 Introduction
4 Limitation

3. History of the
theory(1980s-1990s)
The viewpoints appear before people write them down.
“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

4. Deborah Tannen
She is a professor of Linguistics at
Professor
Georgetown University, US.
Writing about how the language of everyday
Author conversation affects relationships.
Famous book: You Just Don't Understand
A frequent guest on television and radio
Guest news and information shows, including
on TV Good Morning America, the Today
Show.

5. Introduction
Origin in “One up,
childhood one down”
•Due to the origin in childhood, the gender
differences in communication revolves
around“One up, one down”position.

6. Limitation
Tannen neglects the political factor
Political which influences gender differences
factor in communication.
(Matrilineal society)
Feminism With the rise of feminism, females
are no longer in the “one down”
influence
situation.

7. Limitation
Business The time gap
background
Tannen is a The theory was
linguistic written around
professor who 1980, due to the
has studied the issuance time,
differences in the theory
communication cannot be used
between men perfectly.
and women.

8. Limitation
Society Other factors Practical
The theory
The theory was ignored the The theory was
applicable in an impact of other based on
individualism key factors, observations,
western society. such as: rather than
Therefore, it may religion, culture, evidences.
not be applicable personality,
in a collective perception, the
society. position-level
and intelligence.

9. Conclusion
The theory is amazing in explaining the gender
differences in communication between
men & women
However, we don’t recommend applying it by its
own due to the critical limitations we came across.
It depends!