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The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2003
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of ...
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I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our ...
Deborah Tannen
Random House, 2001
Insightful reference on the levels of how we communicate
Exceptional reference for the verbal and the non verbal communicator. Best analogy "Do you hear what I mean?" As a wife of a non verbal communicator and a mother of three one who masters the english language and has strong communication skills to the youngest who ...
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I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults
Deborah Tannen
Ballantine Books, 2002
really really really really good. really.
I cannot express how much this book has helped me understand what's going on in my family. A lot of arguments in my family center around who said what, how they said it, and why they said it. And Tannen provides almost all of the tools necessary for us to even think ...
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That's Not What I Meant!
Deborah Tannen
Ballantine Books, 1992
Powerful Communication Skills Taught from a Top Expert!
That's Not What I Meant explores how to improve communication for both men and women in their personal and private lives. Topics covered include how and why people communicate differently, why misunderstanding occur and how to improve ones own communication style.
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Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work
Deborah Tannen
Harper Paperbacks, 1995
Read this if the men or women at work drive you crazy
In seminars, I often ask "How many here have had a conversation with someone of the opposite gender that didn't go quite the way you thought it would?" After all the hands are up, I explain that I'll draw on two very different but extremely helpful authors, John Gray ...
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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Deborah Tannen
Harper Paperbacks, 2001
Exceptionally Researched and Written!
I read this book several years ago and found it well researched, written and easy to understand.
Deborah Tannen is a linguist who clearly addresses how and why women and men communicate differently. She explains that women communicate primarily to establish ...
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You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Deborah Tannen
Ballantine Books, 2006
Great for women AND men!
Another reviewer said it best when she asked if Tannen knew her and her daughter. I called my mother several times over the course of reading this book, laughing about conversations we've had IDENTICAL to those in this book. What I love about Tannen is that none of ...
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Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other
Haru Yamada
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
Enlightening
If anyone is qualified to write about the subject of US-Japanese communication, it is Yamada. She is truly bi-cultural and bi-lingual, having significant experience in both the United States and Japan (her father's employment required the family to move in three year ...
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He Said, She Said (Exploring the Different Ways Men and Women Communicate)
Barnes & Noble Audio, 2004
Deborah Tannen is Wonderful!
Deborah Tannen's course is great, you don't even realize you are listening to college style lectures. Ms. Tannen brings the subject to life, I highly recommend any of her books or CD's.
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The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words
Deborah Tannen
Ballantine Books, 1999
Give Peace a Chance!
Debra Tannen does an excellent job in The Argument Culture of bringing to the surface the problems with the way we communicate and how we can open a better dialogue with each other. Examples of chapters are: Fighting for our lives (Chapter 1), From Lapdog to Attack ...
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The Argument Culture : Moving from Debate to Dialogue
Deborah Tannen
Random House, 1998
Every disagreement should not be a war!
In _The Argument Culture_, Deborah Tannen describes (and decries) the recent tendency for debates of any sort to devolve into an adversarial conflict between two opposing sides. Often, the metaphors of war and fighting are used to describe what should be just a ...
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The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Deborah Tannen
Harvard Business Review, 2002
Most managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and are themselves judged. Using research carried out in a variety of workplace settings, linguist Deborah Tannen demonstrates how conversational style often overrides what we say, affecting who gets ...
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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends
Deborah Tannen
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Understanding Misunderstandings
Deborah Tannen's book hit me with what should have been obvious years ago. During a recent conversation, a fellow student at the American University voiced some hesitation about applying for a master's degree in Sociology, because her undergraduate degree was in Music. ...
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Gender and Conversational Interaction (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
Oxford University Press, USA, 1993
Feminist Rants
Again, this was a book I had to read for a class. I did not choose to read it... I would say that people need to worry more about the quality of their work than what people are going to think about it in the long run. The way people speak when referring to genders ...
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Framing in Discourse
Oxford University Press, USA, 1993
Academic Mumble Jumble
This is not a book for the general public. In fact, it is not a book at all. It is a collection of papers written by Deborah Tannen and her students, most of which have not been published in peer-reviewed journals.
If you have done a few years of graduate-school ...
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