Deborah Tannen
PORTABLE PROFESSOR,Â™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.,Professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking research into the fundamental differences between the ways in which the sexes communicate using language forms the basis for this fascinating series of lectures. From conversational style and body language to the use of tone and idiom, and beginning very early in life, men and women relate to each other and among themselves in startlingly differentÂ—and surprisingly predictableÂ—ways. This course explores many of the reasons for these differences and probes the pitfalls, consequences, and benefits of these varying modes of interaction.,COURSE LECTURES, 
   He Said/She Said: A Framework for Understanding Conversations Between Men and Women 
   The Source of Gender Patterns: Children at Play 
   A Cross-Cultural Approach to Gender Talk 
   The Role of Opposition in Men's Relationships 
   The Role of Talk in,Women's Relationships 
   The Interplay of Power and Connection 
   Ambiguity and Polysemy: Two Keys to,Understanding Language and Gender 
   Indirectness: Not in So Many Words 
   Talking at Home: Gender in the Family 
   Talking at Work 
   Who Talks More?: Public and Private Speaking 
   A History of Research on Gender and Languages 
   Nature/Nurture: The Source of Gender Differences 
   Conclusion: What Can You Do? 
 ,Deborah Tannen, is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has written countless articles along with nineteen books, including the best-selling,You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!,, and ,I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partners, Sibs, and Kids When You Are All Adults.,Tannen lectures around the world and regularly appears on television as an expert on,interpersonal communication.
Nonfiction,Language,Communication,Humanities,Linguistics,Self Help,Psychology,Relationships,Sociology,Feminism,Science,Culture,Society
He Said, She Said (Exploring the Different Ways Men and Women Communicate)