{"product_id":"thats-not-what-i-meant-how-conversational-style-makes-or-breaks-relationships-paperback","title":"That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Tannen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis....Fascinating.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Oliver Sacks, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mind's Eye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThat's Not What I Meant , \u003c\/em\u003e Deborah Tannen, renowned communication expert and author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers \u003cem\u003eYou're Wearing THAT?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYou Just Don't Understand\u003c\/em\u003e, explores how conversational styles can make or break interpersonal relationships at home, at work, or at play. Fans of her books and the healthily curious reader interested in popular psychology, feminism, linguistics, or social sciences will be fascinated by Tannen's remarkable insights into unintentional conversational confusion. \u003cem\u003eThat's Not What I Meant \u003c\/em\u003e is an essential guide to recognizing and adjusting what we say and how we are saying it in order to strengthen or save a relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are, all of us, foreigners to each other: editor and writer, man and woman, Californian and New Yorker, friend and friend. Dr. Tannen shows us how different we are, and how to speak the same language.\u003cbr\u003eJack Rosenthal\u003cbr\u003ePultizer Prize winner and editor\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003cbr\u003eDeborah 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. In THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!, Dr. 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. Entertaining and informative, this is an essential complement to psychological theories of human behavior. No one who has read Deborah Tannen's fascinating look at women and men will want to miss a word of it!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it's often not what you say but how you say it that counts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her #1 bestseller \u003cem\u003eYou Just Don't Understand\u003c\/em\u003e. In \u003cem\u003eThat's Not What I Meant!\u003c\/em\u003e, the internationally renowned sociolinguist and expert on communication demonstrates how our conversational signals--voice level, pitch and intonation, rhythm and timing, even the simple turns of phrase we choose--are powerful factors in the success or failure of any relationship. Regional speech characteristics, ethnic and class backgrounds, age, and individual personality all contribute to diverse conversational styles that can lead to frustration and misplaced blame if ignored--but provide tools to improve relationships if they are understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once eye-opening, astute, and vastly entertaining, Tannen's classic work on interpersonal communication will help you to hear what isn't said and to recognize how your personal conversational style meshes or clashes with others. It will give you a new understanding of communication that will enable you to make the adjustments that can save a conversation . . . or a relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.07 x 5.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44410980958310,"sku":"9780062062994","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/K3htdHl4aVNhODdXdExoWlJsdVJXUT09.webp?v=1769824304","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/thats-not-what-i-meant-how-conversational-style-makes-or-breaks-relationships-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}