That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others - Hardcover

Tannen, Deborah

 
9780460047319: That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others

Synopsis

Tannen demonstrates how the dynamics of conversation can impact relationships--business or personal--and examines the opportunities and dangers that any conversation can present.

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Review

Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis ... fascinating (Oliver Sacks)

Book Description

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.

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