people. The way we speak and why we speak that way, have caused opinions from various

authors over the years. Deborah Tannen is one such author. Tannen, who has a doctorate in

linguistics, is a professor at Georgetown University. She has been studying the way people

communicate and the problems they have communicating with each other for many years. Her

studies inspired her to write several books on the subject. The article "Put Down That Paper

and Talk To Me," which appears in the textbook Writing the World, was taken from her best-

seller You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which was written in 1991.

Deborah Tannen believes men and women talk differently because they are raised in two

different conversational cultures and that problems arise because of conversational style. She

speaking" because they are free to talk with someone who they feel close to without worrying

ignoring the possibility that men and women communicate differently because of differences of

phrases "public speaking" and "private speaking."(9-10) Tannen states that men communicate

holds a Ph.D. in linguistics. They believe that Deborah Tannen's explanation of how men and

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