I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults
Praise forYou Just Don't Understand"Tannen has a marvelous ear for the way real people express themselves and a scientist's command of the inner structure of speech and human relationships."—Jonathan Kirsch,Los Angeles Times"Goes a long way toward explaining why perfectly wonderful men and women behave in ways that baffle their partners."— Judy Mann, The Washington Post"This book, written by a linguistics expert so you have to believe she knows what she's talking about could be the Rosetta Stone that deciphers the miscommunication between the sexes."— Ruthe Stein,San Francisco Chronicle"This book will help many put their problems of communication with the opposite sex in manageable perspective."— Ruth Rose,The New York Times Book Review"Deborah Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis. It is this that makes her an extraordinary sociolinguist, and... her book such a fascinating look at that crucial social cement, conversation."— Oliver SacksFrom the Hardcover edition.