Deborah Tannen Rhetorical Analysis

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Deborah Tannen has recently emphasized that gender serves a significant purpose when it comes to who contributes to variations in communication inside of classrooms. She states that males tend to dominant classroom communication or classroom interaction. She advocates that there are a variety of things that influences communication. Throughout her essay, she explains how different regional, ethnic, and class backgrounds, as well as age affects who speaks out in most classrooms. Each thing discussed can affect a person a different way. Tannen says, “No one’s conversational style is absolute; everyone’s style changes in response to the context and others’ style.” In my essay, I will be stating one claim that she did not express which were the