According to Sarah Trenholm, "throughout their lives, men and women learn to varying degrees, how to use language to display stereotypical gender identities." With this sentence, I believe that society and the media have publicize how men and women should act according to their gender roles. I am a female, therefore my gender identity that I've been taught to have is to be quiet, reserved, and respectful. With my brother, he's been taught to be an opinionated person who should have an opinion about everything because he should be educated enough to speak on any topic. My brother was also taught to deal with problems in an authoritative way. So because of how we are taught to be by our parents and by the media, we tend to tap into our stereotypical gender identities. I've noticed in junior high, boys will act out their superiority and toughness in school among each other after a night of watching the WWF, a wrestling television show. Also, in a Vietnamese tradition, the woman is the servant who cooks, clean, and takes care of the children, while the man is out doing hard work. So when he comes home, he uses that superior language to tell her what to do , while she uses the respectful and submissive language. In these situations is when men and women have different languages.
I do thing so some degree agree that men and women use language differently but it all depends on certain situations. For an example, in personal relationships, men and women use language differently. But in the professional and business world, men and women use the same professional language. I believe the types of language we use depend on the type of characteristic and role we put on. Meaning, everybody have different personalities that they put on for different situations and people. We have a professional and formal personality when we are trying to make a business deal. But when we are at home with our family and friends, we use the informal personality. Just like how we put on a professional and formal personality during a business meeting, we will use a business language. When we are at home and comfortable with your close ones, you use whatever informal language you like. Once again, I truly believe that type of language you use, all depends on the type of persona you have a given moment. In these circumstances is when men and women have the same language; situations where we have use different persona.
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ReplyDeleteI think your post is good in that it brings up the point that different cultures use communication between men and women very differently. I had not thought about other cultures when doing my post, I only thought about our American culture as far as the types of communication between men and women. I like how you also point out the traditional gender roles between males and females. I am glad that American culture kind of broke the mold and now women and men can act as they please, not the way it is sterotypically believed that they should act.
Capone's Mom
I like your post since it talks about how men and women have different roles especially when it comes to relationships however in the business world it can be the same because we are all on the same page working for the same thing. I like how you stated the different personality we hold from home to work and to our own personal relationships, it shows that not only is it gender based but how it affects us and our daily lives. The business world is important for women and men to work together and keep your personal gender persona out of it and keep focus as to what the main point of the business would be.
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