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

Tannen, Deborah

 
9780688048129: That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others

Synopsis

A linguist explains why we understand and misunderstand one another in everyday conversation and provides practical guidance in improving communication in personal relationships and on the job

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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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