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by Deborah Tannen

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From the publisher

"Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis....Fascinating."
--Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and The Mind's Eye

In That's Not What I Meant!, Deborah Tannen, renowned communication expert and author of the New York Times bestsellers You're Wearing THAT? and You Just Don't Understand, explores how conversational styles can make or break interpersonal relationships at home, at work, or at play. Fans of her books and the healthily curious reader interested in popular psychology, feminism, linguistics, or social sciences will be fascinated by Tannen's remarkable insights into unintentional conversational confusion. That's Not What I Meant! is an essential guide to recognizing and adjusting what we say and how we are saying it in order to strengthen or save a relationship.

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"We are, all of us, foreigners to each other: editor and writer, man and woman, Californian and New Yorker, friend and friend. Dr. Tannen shows us how different we are, and how to speak the same language."
Jack Rosenthal
Pultizer Prize winner and editor
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Deborah Tannen, who revolutionaized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her bestsller YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, shows that conversational confusion between the sexes is only part of the picture. In THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!, Dr. Tannen shows that growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic and class backgrounds, even age and indvidual personality, all contribute to different conversational styles. Entertaining and informative, this is an essential complement to psychological theories of human behavior. No one who has read Deborah Tannen's fascinating look at women and men will want to miss a word of it!

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  • Title That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships
  • Author Deborah Tannen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
  • Publication date 2011-07-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780062062994 / 0062062999
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.07 x 5.37 x 0.56 in (20.50 x 13.64 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal communication, Conversation
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.346
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