You Just Dont Understand, Deborah Tannen
You Just Dont Understand, Deborah Tannen
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You Just Don't Understand

Author: Deborah Tannen

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2013


Synopsis

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later, their adult efforts to talk often place them at cross purposes -- even when both are sincerely trying to communicate.
Dr. Tannen illustrates how the best intentions can go painfully awry between spouses, family members, co-workers and friends, With You Just Don't Understand, you'll recognize yourself and your own efforts to be understood -- and gain valuable insight to help you communicate better than ever before.

About Deborah Tannen

Deborah Frances Tannen is an author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on February 04, 2009

Deborah Tannen made her reputation with this examination of the differences in the ways men and women communicate. As a novelist, I found it quite useful in terms of understanding how women think and speak. As a reader, I found it amusing and entertaining. As a critic, I do find it a little simplist......more

Goodreads review by Lucia on March 03, 2009

Forget Men are From Mars and Women are From Venus.... go right to the scholarly work that started it all. If you want to better understand what can, and often does, go wrong between men and women in conversation this is a must read.......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 30, 2021

Very good book by a BYU professor whose class I attended many years ago (14-15?) when visiting my daughter, Sally, a student there at the time. I can't comment on it any better than this: "With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men......more

Goodreads review by Aurélien on October 10, 2019

Here we are again, another book on the different ways of communicating between men and women! Here we are again, another book milking the juicy debates Martians vs Venusians! Here we are again, but... We are dealing here with proper sociolinguistics, a perfectly respectable field in which Deborah Tan......more

Goodreads review by Rand on October 08, 2007

her generalizations are too broad and she oversimplifies when she seeks to characterize male and female communication styles, but she struck a chord with me. tannen, a sociolinguist, includes lots of dialogues between men and women, with focus on where they come to blows, verbal blows. based on the......more