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1	You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	That's Not What I Meant more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Read by) Often it's not what you say, but how you say it, that counts. Deborah Tannen, the internationally-acclaimed expert on communication and author of the bestselling YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, will help you recognize your own conversational style and how it meshes or clashes with the styles of others. Entertaining and informative, everyone who speaks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.32! \| first editions \| SVS
3	You Just Don't Understand more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Tannen draws on her extensive and groundbreaking research to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Men use language to protect their independence and negotiate status, while women use language to seek confirmation and reinforce intimacy. This results in misunderstanding and communication breakdown--but Dr. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Deborah Tannen is both a serious linguist and a popularizer whose best-selling forays into interpersonal communication are usually shelved in self-help sections of bookstores. In YOU'RE WEARING THAT? Tannen tackles the thorny issue of mother-daughter relationships, and shows that, as she has said before, we "just don't understand." Tannen's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Your project went off without a hitch--but somebody else got the credit...You averted a crisis brilliantly--but no one noticed...You came to the meeting with a sensational idea--but it was ignored until someone else said the same thing... HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD? In her extraordinary international bestseller, "You Just Don't Understand, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Do more books like this by Deborah Tannen As the author did when discussing men's and women's tendencies to adopt different conversational styles in "You Just Don't Understand", Tannen is careful in this book to emphasize that not all men follow typically masculine patterns of conversation, and not all women follow typically feminine patterns. Based on research and interviews, and written ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Gender & Discourse more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years (in cloth and paper) and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve. For years an internationally known ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.07! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. A professor of sociolinguistics, whose best-selling books have dealt with male-female language worlds, argues that Americans today live in a rhetorically combative culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. The acclaimed author of the bestselling "You Just Don't Understand" illuminates "the language of everyday conversation"--this time for family members. see all copies from $2.18! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other more books like this by Haru Yamada, Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Foreword by) Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before, yet in many ways our nations are as far from mutual understanding as ever. Misconceptions and miscommunications between East and West continue to plague this important relationship, frustrating the best efforts of both cultures to work together. ... see all copies from $6.97! new only from $27.11! \| first editions \| SVS
11	He Said, She Said (Exploring the Different Ways Men and Women Communicate) by Deborah Tannen see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
12 view cover	That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.80!
13 view cover	Gender and Conversational Interaction more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Editor) The author of the bestselling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles are approached as different "cultural" practice. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Tannen, author of YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, offers another linguistic analysis of relationship dynamics. In this text, she examines the ways that families, nuclear or otherwise, verbally interact, and she extracts the messages from the metamessages that family members send to one another. She points out patterns in everyday communication and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, "Conversational Style" - first published in 1984 - presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph "Talking Voices", as well as her well-known popular ... see all copies from $10.99! new only from $20.37! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. The war on drugs, the battle of the sexes, political turf combat--in the argument culture, war metaphors pervade our talk and influence our thinking. In this fascinating book, Tannen shows how deeply entrenched this cultural tendency is and how it can be made better in public and private. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Talking Voices is a radical contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis. In this important new book Deborah Tannen shows how conversation provides the source for linguistic strategies that are shaped and elaborated in literary discourse and other spoken and written, public and private genres. She explores the scenic and musical basis of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.94! \| SVS
18 view cover	Framing in Discourse more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Editor) The concept of framing has been pivotal in research on social interaction among anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and linguists. This collection shows how the discourse analysis of frames can be applied to a range of social contexts. Tannen provides a seminal theoretical framework for conceptualizing the relationship between frames and ... see all copies from $6.36! new only from $27.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Editor) see all copies from $37.80! new only from $47.94! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men at work - language, sex and power more books like this by Deborah Tannen Deborah Tannen looks at the role played by talk 'from 9 to 5', focusing in particular on the differing conversational rituals that typify men and women. Those common among men involve opposition such as banter, joking and playful put-downs; common among women are ways of maintaining the appearance of equality, avoiding boasting and downplaying ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95!
21 view cover	I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking in Families more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Why does communication in family so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking among adult family members so often leads to arguments and hurt feelings. Listeners can learn to separate the word meaning, or message, from the heart meaning, or "metamessage" -- the unstated but powerful meaning that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
22 view cover	The Handbook of Discourse Analysis more books like this by Deborah Schiffrin (Editor), Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Editor), Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton (Editor) The articles collected in the Handbook of Discourse Analysis comprise a foundational paradigm for discourse that is broad enough to support a variety of approaches, methods, and even definitions, regarding discourse. The volume begins with an overview of discourse analysis, then moves through an examination of theoretical and methodological issues ... see all copies from $46.13! new only from $49.82! \| SVS
23 view cover	Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families more books like this by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. (Editor), Shari Kendall (Editor), Cynthia Gordon (Editor) Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique research project in which four dual-income American families recorded everything ... see all copies from $7.71! new only from $7.71! \| SVS
24 view cover	Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Gurt 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond more books like this by Deborah Tannen (Editor), James E. Alatis (Editor) GURT is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world's star gatherings for scholars in the fields of language and linguistics. In 2001, the best from around the world in the disciplines of anthropological linguistics and discourse analysis meet to present and share the latest research on linguistic analysis and to address real ... see all copies from $34.92! new only from $34.92! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The argument culture : changing the we way argue and debate more books like this by Deborah Tannen A reporter gives one side of the story and then, to be 'fair', finds an advocate for the opposite side. But what if the truth lies somewhere in the middle? Why do we see everything as either / or? In the media, in politics (particularly in the House of Commons), in our classrooms and courtrooms, issues are taken up in adversarial debate between ... see all copies from $11.94! new only from $11.94! \| first editions

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