Listen "Deborah Tannen, "You Just Don't Understand""
Episode Synopsis
Why do so many women feel that men don’t tell them anything, that they only want to fix everything? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? Sociolinguist and bestselling author of “That’s not what I meant!” ,Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown university offers revolutionary answers to these and other questions that confuse women’s and men’s attempts to communicate with each other. She has some stunning evidence from her own studies where she shows that men and women live in different worlds, even under the same roof. From a very early age, girls play with a best friend or a small group and use language to seek confirmation and reinforce intimacy, while boys use language to negotiate status in large group activities. As a result, men and women have completely different impressions of the same conversation. Listen to find a peace treaty in the battle of the sexes.
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