You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen - ISBN: 9781853814716
Paperback
Men and women speak different languages, leading to hilarious misunderstandings.

You Just Don't Understand

Women and Men in Conversation

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    14 March 1996

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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
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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Critics Review

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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