Deborah Tannen: 18 books

Book cover of You're Wearing That?

You're Wearing That?

Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006

Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Timesbestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship. It...
Book cover of Gender and Discourse
by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1994

Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve....
Book cover of The Argument Culture

The Argument Culture

Stopping America's War of Words

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

In her number one bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen showed why talking to someone of the other sex can be like talking to someone from another world. Her bestseller Talking from 9 to 5 did for workplace communication what You Just Don't Understand did for personal relationships....
Book cover of I Only Say This Because I Love You

I Only Say This Because I Love You

How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2001

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're...
Book cover of Conversational Style

Conversational Style

Analyzing Talk among Friends

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices,...
Book cover of You're the Only One I Can Tell

You're the Only One I Can Tell

Inside the Language of Women's Friendships

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

**This warm, wise exploration of female friendship from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Just Don’t Understand will help women lean into these powerful relationships. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK Best friend, old friend, good friend, bff, college roommate, neighbor,...
Book cover of That's Not What I Meant!

That's Not What I Meant!

How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

At home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it's often not what you say but how you say it that counts. Deborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her #1 bestseller You Just Don't Understand. In That's Not What I Meant!, the internationally...
Book cover of HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)
by Harvard Business Review, Robert B. Cialdini, Nick Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

**The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?**If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help...
Book cover of Talking from 9 to 5

Talking from 9 to 5

Women and Men at Work

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

Your project went off without a hitch--but somebody else got the credit...You averted a crisis brilliantly--but no one noticed...You came to the meeting with a sensational idea--but it was ignored until someone else said the same thing... HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD? In her extraordinary...
Book cover of You Just Don't Understand

You Just Don't Understand

Women and Men in Conversation

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of...
Book cover of The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
by Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton, Deborah Schiffrin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

The second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research to have developed since the original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and discourse-analytic models, in an authoritative two-volume...
Book cover of You Were Always Mom's Favorite!

You Were Always Mom's Favorite!

Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives

by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009

Conversations between sisters reveal a deep and constant tug between two dynamics—an impulse toward closeness and an impulse toward competition. It takes just a word from your sister to start you laughing, or to summon up a past you both share. But it also takes just a word to send you into an emotional...
Book cover of Understanding Inequality

Understanding Inequality

The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Book cover of Leadership Presence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Amy J.C. Cuddy, Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

A carefully curated selection of articles about presence from Harvard Business Review. Deconstructs and defines "executive presence." Identifies ways to come across as more strategic. Shows how to use body language to signal your confidence and calm. Describes the limits of charisma--and...
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