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Also by Deborah Tannen:

Finding My Father, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
You Were Always Mom's Favorite!, September 2009
Hardcover
You're Wearing That?, January 2006
Hardcover
That's Not What I Meant, February 2002
Paperback (reprint)
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, September 2001
Trade Size (reprint)

THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT
By: Deborah Tannen

How conversational style makes or breaks relationships

Ballantine
February 2002
240 pages
ISBN: 0345379721
Paperback (reprint)
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"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

Deborah Tannen, who revolutionaized 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!

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