Provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships.

Her international bestseller, the book that shows us at last, why we find it so difficult to talk to the opposite sex. Reissued to coincide with her new book The Argument Culture.

The articles collected in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis comprise a foundational paradigm for discourse that is broad enough to support a variety of approaches, methods, and even definitions regarding discourse.

Provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships.

'Deborah Tannen confirms that what is true in the bedroom is also true in the boardroom ... men and women speak different languages' Observer Reissued to coincide with her new book The Argument Culture.

This volume serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. The articles collected here support a wide range of assumptions, approaches, methods, analyses, and even definitions regarding discourse.

Why do daughters complain that their mothers always criticize, while mothers feel hurt that their daughters shut them out? In her most provocative and engaging book to date, Deborah Tannen takes on the often complex, fraught and passionate mother-daughter relationship

This volume contains a number of essays on gender-related differences in conversational interactions. The essays comprise much of the research underlying the author's earlier work, You Just Don't Understand , and take a similar anthropological and sociolinguistic approach.

A study in linguistics which examines the frame of a given speech-act in its psychological setting. It is argued that both the speaker and the hearer have certain expectations based on their perceptions of the frame, which affect their choice of words and their understanding of what is said.

Wonderful new look for the paperback. Uses real conversations to shed light on how families communicate (or not!) with each other.

In 2001, the best from around the world in the disciplines of anthropological linguistics and discourse analysis met to share the latest research on linguistic analysis and to address real-world contexts in private and public domains. This work covers topics by the plenary speakers only.

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.

A study in linguistics which examines the frame of a given speech-act in its psychological setting. It is argued that both the speaker and the hearer have certain expectations based on their perceptions of the frame, which affect their choice of words and their understanding of what is said.

Tannen collects five of her essays on gender and language, which provide a background as well as a response to her popular work You Just Don't Understand (1990). Her introduction discusses the reactions to that book and explains how these essays deal with questions raised by the book's critics.