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That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others
Deborah Tannen
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Description for That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others
paperback. Tannen's classic investigation into how growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic and class backgrounds, even age and personality contribute to different conversational styles. Reissued to coincide with her new book The Argument Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 64. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.
In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853815126
SKU
KSG0032180
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Deborah Tannen
Best-selling author Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has also been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princetown University.
Reviews for That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others
Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis ... fascinating
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks