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Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis ... fascinating Oliver Sacks

As E M Forster said in A Passage to India, 'a pause in the wrong place, an intonation misunderstood, and a whole conversation went awry'. And in world affairs, a simple verbal misunderstanding can have fatal consequences. Dr Tannen, an American professor of linguistics, shows in this clearly written, fascinating book how 'conversational style' works, behind the actual words we say. There are no 'rights' and 'wrongs': like table manners, verbal conventions are expressions of culture. Dr Tannen looks at how our background, age, social class, sex, and personality can affect the messages we send and receive, and what we can do about it to improve our communications with others - at work, with family and friends, in relationships. (Kirkus UK)

'Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis ... fascinating' OLIVER SACKS

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Best-selling author Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has also been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princetown University.

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