Article Reflection-3

RAPPORT TALK AND REPORT TALK

Men and women are very different from each other in many ways. One of them is their talking amounts. Do women talk more or men talk more? This question has always been a difficult question to answer. Because people can not come to an agreement about the answer. In this article, named rapport talk and report talk, Deborah Tannen explains gender communication and the differences between man and woman. According to Deborah Tannen, men and women differ in the way puplic speaking and private speaking. Deborah Tannen sees man as puplic speakers. Because men talk for information and so they like talking to other peoples. Men are better than women in terms of puplic speaking. So here men are called report talk according to Debarah Tannen. Women are different that they use language to express their feeling. And women like private speaking and they are better than men at this point. Because of those, Deborah Tannen sees women as rapport talkers. In the article it is stated that men do not like talking about everything. Unless there is something to say. They do not talk. But women speak almost about everything.  They want to speak for interaction. For example In the evening women want to talk how was the day, what happened etc. but men are not like that. That’s why many of women are complaining about their husbands.

Then what about the question that which one talk more , men or women ??? I think this issue is depends on the personality. Because this is about the structure of human being. I mean that is something about personality. But to tell the truth there is a common perception that women talk much more than men. But that is not certainly true. As I said before, this is about the person’s character…