Deborah Tannen is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown
University. She is the author of the best-selling You Just Don't
Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Talking Voices:
Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse,
That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks
Your Relations With Others, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk
Among Friends, and most
recently, Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace:
Language, Sex, and Power.
"A clear and cogent synthesis of important research in linguistics
discourse analysis and gender studies."--Bennett Rafoth, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania
"Excellent book....The topic of genderlects simply cannot be
approached without reference to Tannen, and this book gathers
together some of her most impressive findings."--bridget Drinka,
University of Texas at San Antonio
"I...found the contents to be lucidly written and to have extremely
significant relevance to interdisciplinary communications
studies."--Harold Battersby, SUNY-Geneseo
"A very interesting and useful book. I like the organization. It's
up-to-date and thought-provoking."--Barbara Abbott, Michign State
University
"Great for use in a communication and gender course."--Judith
Barnes, San Jose State University
"Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity....She makes the art of
listening less scary and more fascinating than any other
sociolinguist or therapist writing today."--Los Angeles Times
"Tannen explains the scholarly underpinnings of her bestseller You
Just Don't Understand>"--The Washington Post
"A useful thematic compilation for larger public and all academic
libraries."--Library Journal
"A mature and inspiring synthesis of rigorous method and humanistic
as well as scientific goals."--Paul Friedrich, author of The
Language Parallax
"Tannen brings together five studies that bear on dominance vs.
culture as interpretations of gender difference in languages, and
frames the studies with an introduction addressing the debate. All
concerned with the issue will need to address what she says."--Dell
Hymes, author of Foundations in Sociolinguistics
"Tannen's work provides a clear, precise, complete analysis of
verbal and nonverbal communication, based on scientific evidence.
Gender and Discourse is probably her best yet."--Mark Hickson,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
"A significant contribution to teaching about gender difference in
communication. These highly readable chapters provide much valuable
information for raising students' awareness."--Clifford E. Wexler,
Columbia-Green Community College
"A clear and cogent synthesis of important research in linguistics discourse analysis and gender studies."--Bennett Rafoth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania "Excellent book....The topic of genderlects simply cannot be approached without reference to Tannen, and this book gathers together some of her most impressive findings."--bridget Drinka, University of Texas at San Antonio "I...found the contents to be lucidly written and to have extremely significant relevance to interdisciplinary communications studies."--Harold Battersby, SUNY-Geneseo "A very interesting and useful book. I like the organization. It's up-to-date and thought-provoking."--Barbara Abbott, Michign State University "Great for use in a communication and gender course."--Judith Barnes, San Jose State University "Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity....She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today."--Los Angeles Times "Tannen explains the scholarly underpinnings of her bestseller You Just Don't Understand>"--The Washington Post "A useful thematic compilation for larger public and all academic libraries."--Library Journal "A mature and inspiring synthesis of rigorous method and humanistic as well as scientific goals."--Paul Friedrich, author of The Language Parallax "Tannen brings together five studies that bear on dominance vs. culture as interpretations of gender difference in languages, and frames the studies with an introduction addressing the debate. All concerned with the issue will need to address what she says."--Dell Hymes, author of Foundations in Sociolinguistics "Tannen's work provides a clear, precise, complete analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication, based on scientific evidence. Gender and Discourse is probably her best yet."--Mark Hickson, University of Alabama at Birmingham "A significant contribution to teaching about gender difference in communication. These highly readable chapters provide much valuable information for raising students' awareness."--Clifford E. Wexler, Columbia-Green Community College
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