1) Tannen's background is she was born in 1946 and is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Her essay There is No Unmarked Woman was not found for where it was originally published.
2) Her Thesis for the essay is that a woman is never unmarked. She addresses that we speak with our clothes and looks instead of with our mouths.
3) The term "marked" is the way language alters the base meaning of a world by adding a linguistic particle that has no meaning on its own. She uses it in her argument by noticing the women in the conference and how they are dressed, groomed and how they appear everyday at the office. She also states that the men don't have to dress up everyday in fancy clothes except wear a plain suit. But the women dress up so they are noticed. Therefore they are marked.
4) Tannen says that women are marked by their outfits, make up, hair style, and basically looks.
5) She says that men see it as a hostile refusal to please them.
6) The point Tannen is making is that Fasold stresses that language and culture are particularly unfair in treating women as the marked case because biologically it is the male that is marked. Fasold talks about the pronouns "he" and "she" is used differently. He tells that "he" means "he or she" and that "she" is used only if the referent is specifically female.
7) According to Tannen, with her writing this essay marks her not as a writer, not as a linguist, not as an analyst of human behavior, but as a feminist.
8) She concludes it as a Delayed Thesis by stating the thesis at the end of the essay.
Your answers to these questions are good, but I want you to combine this into one solid paragraph (or maybe two). The goal is to have a free-standing summary of her article that you can revise some and include in your first essay if you choose to write about her essay. You don't have to edit the post, but keep that in mind.
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