Psychology 409b – November 21, 2006

Individual Styles

By:  Dayna Hasegawa

Instructions for this activity are found at:

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/g25-oral1.htm

Instructor: Dr. Leon James

Tannen, Deborah.  Gender and Discourse.  Oxford University Press.  New York, Oxford: 1994.  pg 149-160.

I. Individual Styles

a. Both Johan and Marianne  has a style that is made up of a habitual use of linguistic devices

b. Marianne’s style reflects a combination of deference and camaraderie

i. Deference is a style of aiming to avoid imposition or avoiding being pushing. 

ii. Camaraderie is a style of aiming to acknowledge interrelationship.  To be able to express their feelings toward each other. 

iii. Marianne frequently talks and acts childlike by putting herself down and holding up a nonstop verbiage of questions and thoughts. 

c. Johan’s style uses distance

i. Distance is a style of aiming to inspire separateness and privacy. 

ii. He uses distancing through sarcasm, and irony in complex sentences. 

iii. Also uses broad generalities using high-flown language 

II. Overall Strategy and Effect

a. Johan

i. Composed of long intricate sentences

ii. Words used are long

iii. He defines his situation in abstractions

iv. Uses professional distance

b. Marianne

i. Speeches are composed of short, simple sentences

ii. Words are short and of native vocabulary

iii. She makes abstract concepts concrete and to the point. 

iv. Uses childlike camaraderie

Related Links

Dominating Marriages

http://heart-2-heart.ca/women/page4.html  I chose this site because in marriages like Johan and Marianne’s, where he dominates her by the way he talks to her, I felt that it would be useful to give a site that talks about why women are submissive to their husbands.  This site also gives reasons why women blame themselves and why they stay with their dominating husbands.

Misunderstandings

http://www.charminghealth.com/applicability/communication.htm  I felt that this site related to this section because it discusses the importance of communicating with your partner.  It also talks about different reasons why communication may fail in a relationship and the effects of it.  Johan and Marianne failed to communicate in a healthy style with each other.    

Conversation

http://bun.i.hosei.ac.jp/museum/html/kiyo/48/yoko/shiina.pdf  I chose this site because it breaks down the dialogues between a husband and wife, and aunt and nephew in the early modern English period.  It also observes the different linguistic patterns that occur during a conversation between two people.  It shows how important it is to choose the most positive way of communicating with your partner. 

My Homepage:

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/409bf2006/hasegawa/hasegawa-home.htm

Class Homepage:

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/classhome-g25.htm