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By the author of the best-seller You Just Don't Understand.

About the Author

Deborah Tannen is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others, and Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends.

Reviews

"Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity....She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today."--Los Angeles Times
"Tannen explains the scholarly underpinnings of her bestseller You Just Don't Understand>"--The Washington Post
"A useful thematic compilation for larger public and all academic libraries."--Library Journal
"A mature and inspiring synthesis of rigorous method and humanistic as well as scientific goals."--Paul Friedrich, author of The Language Parallax
"Tannen brings together five studies that bear on dominance vs. culture as interpretations of gender difference in languages, and frames the studies with an introduction addressing the debate. All concerned with the issue will need to address what she says."--Dell Hymes, author of Foundations in Sociolinguistics
"Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity....She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today."--Los Angeles Times
"Tannen explains the scholarly underpinnings of her bestseller You Just Don't Understand>"--The Washington Post
"A useful thematic compilation for larger public and all academic libraries."--Library Journal
"A mature and inspiring synthesis of rigorous method and humanistic as well as scientific goals."--Paul Friedrich, author of The Language Parallax
"Tannen brings together five studies that bear on dominance vs. culture as interpretations of gender difference in languages, and frames the studies with an introduction addressing the debate. All concerned with the issue will need to address what she says."--Dell Hymes, author of Foundations in Sociolinguistics