That's Not What I Meant!
How Conversational Style Makes Or Breaks Your Relations With Others
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:3rd Aug '92
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
* Author tour to coincide with publication of THE ARGUMENT CULTURE
Tannen's classic investigation into how growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic and class backgrounds, even age and personality contribute to different conversational styles. Reissued to coincide with her new book The Argument Culture.In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.
Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis ... fascinating * Oliver Sacks *
ISBN: 9781853815126
Dimensions: 132mm x 199mm x 12mm
Weight: 140g
192 pages