For example, little girls maintain their friendships through the exchange of secrets and mindfulness, while women regard conversation as the corner stone of a relationship (Tannen 282). Therefore, a woman expects her husband to be just like a best friend who listens and gives feed back on what she is trying to say. According to linguistic Lynette Hirschman, “women make more listener noise, such as ‘mhm’, ‘yeah’, and ‘uhuh’ to show ‘I’m with you’” (Tannen 284). However, men are found to give silent attention, making it seem like not any attention is being given to the women. Causing, women to interpret the attention of a man as no attention at all (Tannen …show more content…
According to psychologist Bruce Dorval, at every age girls and women faced each other making direct eye contact. While boys and men of all ages sat at angles to each other and looked at things within the room (Tannen 283). Therefore, the tendency for men to face away from women gives the impression that they are not listening even when they are. Also, girls, talk at length about one topic while boys seem to jump from one topic to the next. These conversational habits are as frustration to men as they are to women. Men expect silent attention; however, when there are listener noises men perceive them as impatience or overreaction. Another difference among men and women is how they express support. Women have the tendency to agree to each other, while men tend to point out the other side of an argument Men’s conversational duty can be seen to women as disloyalty, and refusal to offer the requisite support (Tannen 284). Men take too literally women’s “trouble talk”, just as women mistake men’s challenges and real