You Just Dont Understand by Deborah Tannen

You Just Dont Understand by Deborah Tannen

This fascinating and helpful book exploded into public consciousness the insight that conversations between women and men are like cross-cultural communication. Tannen shows that men use language to preserve their independence and negotiate status while women use language to preserve connections and reinforce intimacy, a difference that results in misunderstanding and mutual blame. Tannen takes a no-fault approach, revealing the logic of both women's and men's equally valid styles.

Drawing lively examples from everyday life, Tannen writes with the humor and flare of a novelist and the clarity of an expert. A ground-breaking and transformative book, You Just Don't Understand is a classic in the field of interpersonal relations that is as relevant today as when it revolutionized our thinking about male-female relationships.

Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Deborah Tannen Her books include the New York Times bestsellers You Just Don't Understand, You're Wearing THAT? and You Just Don't Understand, You're Wearing THAT? She has contributed to a number of prominent newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, the Washington Post, and Time, and has been featured in them.