You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
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Summary
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781853813818 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853813818 |
| Title | You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation |
| Author | Deborah Tannen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1991-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 330 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |