Deborah Tannen is the author of You Just Don't Understand, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for
nearly four years, including eight months at number one, and has been translated into twenty-six languages. Among
her many books are The Argument Culture, Talking from 9 to 5, and That's Not What I Meant! A linguistics professor
at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., she is a frequent guest on such radio and television shows as The
Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, Good Morning America, CNN's TalkBack Live, and NPR's All Things Considered.
Review
"We 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."
--Jack Rosenthal, Pultizer Prize winner and editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Random House Web Site, April, 2002
Summary
Deborah Tannen, who revolutionized 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!
