Thats Not What We Meant To Do

Author : Steven M. Gillon
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393048841
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Not what We Meant to Do written by Steven M. Gillon and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a shrewd eye for historical absurdity, Gillon takes readers on a tour of this century's reforms and legal innovations--federal welfare policy, community mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform, to name a few--and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment.

Author : Michael Austin
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616146702
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Not what They Meant! written by Michael Austin and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for anyone seeking the accurate historical background to many of the hot-button political debates of today. A true historical picture of men who often disagreed with one another on such crucial issues as federal power, judicial review, and the separation of church and state.

Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062210114
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Not What I Meant! written by Deborah Tannen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it's often not what you say but how you say it that counts. Deborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her #1 bestseller You Just Don't Understand. In That's Not What I Meant!, the internationally renowned sociolinguist and expert on communication demonstrates how our conversational signals—voice level, pitch and intonation, rhythm and timing, even the simple turns of phrase we choose—are powerful factors in the success or failure of any relationship. Regional speech characteristics, ethnic and class backgrounds, age, and individual personality all contribute to diverse conversational styles that can lead to frustration and misplaced blame if ignored—but provide tools to improve relationships if they are understood. At once eye-opening, astute, and vastly entertaining, Tannen's classic work on interpersonal communication will help you to hear what isn't said and to recognize how your personal conversational style meshes or clashes with others. It will give you a new understanding of communication that will enable you to make the adjustments that can save a conversation . . . or a relationship.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Stafford
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Not what I Meant written by Tim Stafford and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who use words well harness that power not only to strengthen relationships with others, but also to change the way they feel, act, and live.

Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199725381
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversational Style written by Deborah Tannen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others. Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that make up the speakers' conversational styles, and in particular how aspects of what she calls a 'high-involvement style' have a positive effect when used with others who share the style, but a negative effect with those whose styles differ. This revised edition includes a new preface and an afterword in which Tannen discusses the book's place in the evolution of her work. Conversational Style is written in an accessible and non-technical style that should appeal to scholars and students of discourse analysis (in fields like linguistics, anthropology, communication, sociology, and psychology) as well as general readers fascinated by Tannen's popular work. This book is an ideal text for use in introductory classes in linguistics and discourse analysis.

Author : Delia Ostach
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668625549
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of "That’s Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships" by Deborah Tannen written by Delia Ostach and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary Language Course Intermediate, language: English, abstract: This is a summary of Deborah Tannen's "That’s Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships", which was published in 1986. It deals with the language in conversations which can cause misunderstandings due to differing interpretations. Tannen divides her work into ten short chapters which fall under the ambit of four more general topics: Linguistic and Conversational Style, Conversational Strategies, Talking at Home: Conversational Style in Close Relationships and What You Can and Can’t Do with Conversational Style.

Author : Cathleen Schine
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374712204
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They May Not Mean To, But They Do written by Cathleen Schine and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America’s greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow, they grow old, and the clan’s matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joy’s beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother’s loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy’s college days. And they didn’t count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids. The New York Times–bestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called “full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to [ Jane] Austen’s own” (The New York Review of Books), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0399181822
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author : Cathleen Schine
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374280134
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They May Not Mean To, But They Do written by Cathleen Schine and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love from one of America's greatest comic novelists"--