Thats Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships Tannen Deborah

" We are, all of us, foreigners to each other: editor and writer, man and woman, Californian and New Yorker, friend and friend. Dr. In THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!, Dr. Tannen shows us how different we are, and how to speak the same language." Jack RosenthalPultizer Prize winner and editorTHE NEW YORK TIMESDeborah Tannen, who revolutionaized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her bestsller YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, shows that conversational confusion between the sexes is only part of the picture.

Entertaining and informative, this is an essential complement to psychological theories of human behavior. Tannen shows that growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic and class backgrounds, even age and indvidual personality, all contribute to different conversational styles. No one who has read Deborah Tannen's fascinating look at women and men will want to miss a word of it!