You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation - Hardcover

Tannen, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853813818 ISBN 13: 9781853813818

Verlag: Virago, 1991

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Reseña del editor

Why is it that women and men seem to talk at cross purposes? Some have claimed that conversations are the forum of male power games, but the author suggests that jockeying for attention is not the whole story and that even when domination is the result, it is not always the intention. She shows how many frictions may arise because girls and boys grow up in essentially different cultures. Where women use language to seek confirmation, make connections and reinforce intimacies, men use it to protect their independence and negotiate status. The result is that conversation becomes a cross-cultural communication, fraught with genuine confusion. Using examples and anecdotes, this book offers an approach to banishing the misunderstandings that confuse our relationships.

Biografía del autor

Deborah Tannen is the acclaimed author of You Just Don't Understand, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years including eight months as number 1; You're Wearing THAT?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation; I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner and That's Not What I Meant! A professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, she has written for and been featured in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Time and Newsweek. She lives with her husband in the Washington, DC area.

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• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1853813818
• ISBN 13: 9781853813818
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330