You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

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Suggesting that boys and girls grow up in essentially different cultures, the author explains how women use language to seek confirmation, make connections and reinforce intimacies, and men use it to protect their independence and negotiate status.

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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

Why is it that women and men seem to talk at cross purposes? Some have claimed that conversations are the forum of male power games, but the author suggests that jockeying for attention is not the whole story and that even when domination is the result, it is not always the intention. She shows how many frictions may arise because girls and boys grow up in essentially different cultures. Where women use language to seek confirmation, make connections and reinforce intimacies, men use it to protect their independence and negotiate status. The result is that conversation becomes a cross-cultural communication, fraught with genuine confusion. Using examples and anecdotes, this book offers an approach to banishing the misunderstandings that confuse our relationships.
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ISBN 13 9781853813818
ISBN 10 1853813818
Titel You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Autor Deborah Tannen
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsjahr 1991-05-09
Seitenanzahl 330
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