That's Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others

"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!Tannen, Deborah is the author of 'That's Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others', published 1992 under ISBN 9780345379726 and ISBN 0345379721.