You Just Don't Understand
Women and Men in Conversation
$24.97
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 March 1996
Summary
Why do so many women feel that men don’t tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point?
In this pioneering book Deborah Tannen shows us how women and men talk in different ways, for profoundly different reasons. While women use language to make connections and reinforce intimacy, men use it to preserve their status and independence.
Some have claimed that conversations are the forum of male power game…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853814716 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853814717 |
| Author: | Deborah Tannen |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 1996 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Tannen combines a novelist’s ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis … fascinating
Tannen combines a novelist’s ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis … fascinating - OLIVER SACKS
About The Author
Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen is a best-selling author and University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has also been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University.
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