You Just Don't Understand

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

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

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

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

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