You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation By Deborah Tannen, James D. Smart ISBN: 9780060959623 ASIN: B0006RQ2KO ASIN: B0007DM11Q Published: 2007 Number of Pages: 352 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Description: From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said.Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.

International Standard Book Number: 0060959622: 0060959622 (pbk.): 9780060959623: 9780060959623 (pbk.)

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Tannen, Deborah.

Title Statement
   - Title: You just don't understand :
   - Remainder of title: women and men in conversation /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Deborah Tannen.

Varying Form of Title
   - Title proper/short title: Women and men in conversation

Edition Statement: 1st Harper pbk.: 1st Quill ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Harper,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Quill,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2007.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2001.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 342 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

General Note: Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1990.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Different words, different worlds -- Asymmetries: women and men talking at cross-purposes -- "Put down that paper and talk to me!": rapport-talk and report talk -- Gossip -- "I'll explain it to you": lecturing and listening -- Community and contest: styles in conflict -- Who's interrupting? Issues of dominance and control -- Damned if you do -- "Look at me when I'm talking to you!": cross talk across the ages -- Living with asymmetry: opening lines of communication.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Communication in marriage.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Conversation.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Interpersonal communication.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Sex differences (Psychology)