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You Just Don't Understand

By Deborah Tannen

You Just Don't Understand Social Sciences

You Just Don't Understand

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Why do so many women feel that men don't tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? In this pioneering book Deborah Tannen shows us how women and men talk in different ways, for profoundly different reasons. While women use language to make connections and reinforce intimacy, men use it to preserve their status and independence. 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
1992-03-26
Publication Date:
1992-03-26
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1853814717
ISBN13:
9781853814716
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
260 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
25 cm

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