You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

By Deborah Tannen

Men and women stay in several worlds...made of alternative words.

Spending approximately 4 years at the big apple instances bestseller checklist, together with 8 months at number 1, You simply Don't Understand is a real cultural and highbrow phenomenon. this is often the e-book that introduced gender transformations in methods of talking to the leading edge of public know-how. With an extraordinary blend of clinical perception and pleasant, funny writing, Tannen exhibits why men and women can stroll clear of an identical dialog with different impressions of what used to be said.

Studded with full of life and enjoyable examples of actual conversations, this publication promises the instruments to appreciate what went mistaken — and to discover a standard language within which to bolster relationships at paintings and at domestic. A vintage within the box of interpersonal family, this booklet will swap eternally how you strategy conversations.

Spending approximately 4 years at the manhattan occasions bestseller record, together with 8 months at number 1, you simply Don't comprehend is a real cultural and highbrow phenomenon. this can be the ebook that introduced gender changes in methods of talking to the vanguard of public knowledge. With a unprecedented blend of medical perception and pleasant, funny writing, Tannen indicates why men and women can stroll clear of an identical dialog with different impressions of what was once said.

Studded with vigorous and wonderful examples of actual conversations, this ebook supplies the instruments to appreciate what went incorrect — and to discover a standard language within which to reinforce relationships at paintings and at domestic. A vintage within the box of interpersonal kin, this ebook will switch eternally how you procedure conversations.

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These resources circumvent, or at least complement, intuition-based judgements of grammatical acceptability. g. Adger and Smith 2005) gives an encouraging indication that as time goes on the sociolinguistic variable is being given more space as a useful analytical and explanatory device in theoretical frameworks that might previously have viewed even the most systematic variation as a ‘nuisance factor’. In applications such as forensic linguistics and language pathology and therapy any sidelining of the role of systematic variation can be dangerously counterproductive (Nolan 1997; Foulkes and French 1999; Oetting 2005; Watt and Smith 2005), and it seems inescapable that the development of 10 VARIATION AND THE VARIABLE reliable human–computer interfaces – especially speech recognition systems – can progress beyond their present point only if sociolinguistic variation at multiple levels of structure is afforded a more central role.

I concentrate on issues of transcription, choice of linguistic variable for analysis, identifying the envelope of variation, coding, and statistical analysis. TRANSCRIPTION Although not a necessary step in the analysis, the task of identifying and analysing variable morphosyntactic forms is greatly aided by full transcription of the interview data. This is an extremely time-consuming initial stage, but one which is worth the effort, as the data can be mined for a number of variables without the need to return to the original recordings every time another variable is analysed.

However, morphosyntactic variation has also garnered considerable attention, with a plethora of studies into variables which are common to a large number of dialects. These include was/were alternation as in (1) below; negative concord, as in (2); verbal –s as in (3); non-standard verb forms as in (4); copula deletion as in (5) and quotative be like, as in (6): (1) The coppers let them go to see if they was the bastards. (Cheshire 1982: 44) (2) I ain’t got no money. (Howe and Walker 2000: 111) (3) Her gives me a hug and a kiss when I comes in and one when I go.

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