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Original Title:	You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
ISBN:	0060959622 (ISBN13: 9780060959623)
Edition Language:	English

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Author	:	Deborah Tannen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	February 6th 2007 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Psychology. Self Help. Relationships. Language. Communication. Humanities. Linguistics. Sociology

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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.  

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herterosexist and closed minded. If you can look past that I guess there's some interesting points, but so hard to look past.

Here we are again, another book on the different ways of communicating between men and women! Here we are again, another book milking the juicy debates Martians vs Venusians! Here we are again, but...We are dealing here with proper sociolinguistics, a perfectly respectable field in which Deborah Tannen is not only an eminent researcher, but, also, was Robin Lakoff's student, the author of the 'Language and women's place'' the book that started it all when it comes to studying the connection (if

Men and women have different ways of speaking. Men often try to one-up one another in conversation and take on a dominant role. This can be seen in them apparently lecturing in a teacher style (to show how much they know), something Tannen refers to as "report" type talking. Their styles of speaking show dominance, and independence. Women, on the other hand tend to try and build community and rapport. So while men's style puts a dividing wedge between people, women's may overlap and downplay

Chapter summaries written for Graduate Credit by 4.0 GPA student in 2015You Just Don't Understand chapter summaries1. In this chapter the author discusses the differences in communication styles between men and women. Men are said to focus on hierarchy, competition and independence. In contrast women focus on building intimacy and connection through conversation. These pattern seem to be built into our makeup, though they're only patterns. Men and women both freedom to be who they are, but for

Deborah Tannen has a keenly tuned ear and a unique ability to see patterns of communication style of which most of us are unaware. In this book, she explains her insights into the vast cultural differences separating men and women which influence - and often complicate - nearly all of our daily communication both within and between genders. It should be read by anyone who has been frustrated by: (a) his male friends constantly one-upping him; (b) her female friends allowing too little

I was listening to this book on an audio book because I was just doing research on feminist issues for a project and I actually found a lot of insightful things contained in it. It really was interesting to me how socialization between guys and girls are so different. A lot of times when I didn't see something like a friend of mine who was a girl did in the same way it was because I didn't understand what was meant. I was still stuck in the traditional mind frame that things are only about

Forget Men are From Mars and Women are From Venus.... go right to the scholarly work that started it all. If you want to better understand what can, and often does, go wrong between men and women in conversation this is a must read.