Tannen's You Just Don't Understand
set tongues wagging across the country in the early 1990s with its analysis of gender differences in speaking styles. Now the linguist and author of numerous other books turns her attention to patterns of...
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Deborah Tannen, Author . Random $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6258-4
Tannen (You Just Don't Understand
; That's Not What I Meant
; etc.) continues to study human interaction through conversation, this time attempting to peel back the layers of meaning that make up conversations between mothers and their...
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Deborah Tannen, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $18.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-688-07822-5
Georgetown University linguistics professor Tannen here ponders gender-based differences that, she claims, define and distinguish male and female communication. Opening with the rationale that ignoring such differences is more dangerous than...
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Deborah Tannen, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (368p) ISBN 978-0-688-11243-1
This wise and widely informative book fulfills its promise to do for the workplace what Tannen's You Just Don't Understand has done for the home front-heighten the reader's perception of the ways in which gender, power structures and cultural...
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Deborah Tannen, Author William Morrow & Company $18 (214p) ISBN 978-0-688-04812-9
Part pop psychology, part sociology and part anthropology, this book by a linguistics professor at Georgetown University focuses on the uncomfortable moments when a conversation inexplicably breaks down, and suggests how such awkwardness can be...
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Deborah Tannen, Author Random House (NY) $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-45602-5
Tannen's bestseller You Just Don't Understand was a guide to gender-based differences in conversational style that set the stage for follow-up titles on talk at the office and in relationships. Here she branches out, applying linguistic theory to...
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Deborah Tannen, Author, Tannen, Author Harper Paperbacks $13.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-71783-5
Tannen probes the way gender roles shape the ways men and women communicate in the workplace, and how these differences lead to misunderstandings. (Sept.)
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Deborah Tannen, Author, Tannen, Author Ballantine Books $14 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-37205-5
Georgetown University linguistics professor Tannen asserts that misunderstandings between the sexes often arise because women like to connect emotionally in conversation while men prefer to impart knowlege. ``Tannen examines the functioning of...
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Deborah Tannen. Ballantine, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-88583-3
Tannen (You Just Don’t Understand) examines the life of her father in this passionate memoir. A giant in her life (“he’s the parent I felt an affinity with, the one who understood me”), Eli Tannen possessed an even temper that masked an unhappy past.
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