I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives - Hardcover

Tannen, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679456015 ISBN 13: 9780679456018

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

A guide to communicating better within families teaches readers how to untie the knots that often hamper important discussions within families and explains how to enhance personal relationships among family members by understanding the art of conversation and listening. By the author of You Just Don't Understand. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

Praise for You Just Don't Understand

"Tannen has a marvelous ear for the way real people express themselves and a scientist's command of the inner structure of speech and human relationships."
--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

"Goes a long way toward explaining why perfectly wonderful men and women behave in ways that baffle their partners."
-- Judy Mann, The Washington Post

"This book, written by a linguistics expert so you have to believe she knows what she's talking about could be the Rosetta Stone that deciphers the miscommunication between the sexes."
-- Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

"This book will help many put their problems of communication with the opposite sex in manageable perspective."
-- Ruth Rose, The New York Times Book Review

"Deborah Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis. It is this that makes her an extraordinary sociolinguist, and... her book such a fascinating look at that crucial social cement, conversation."
-- Oliver Sacks

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Deborah Tannen is the author of You Just Don't Understand, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years, including eight months at number one, and has been translated into twenty-six languages. Among her many books are The Argument Culture, Talking from 9 to 5, and That's Not What I Meant! A linguistics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., she is a frequent guest on such radio and television shows as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, Good Morning America, CNN's TalkBack Live, and NPR's All Things Considered.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679456015
• ISBN 13: 9780679456018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336