"Utterly fascinating." San Francisco ChronicleOften it's not what you say but how you said it. The part of the country you come from, ethnic background, age, class, gender, and just individual personality result in different conversational styles - different ways of saying the same thing.
Deborah Tannen revolutionized our understanding of gender and communication. In this presentation, Tannen lays out and illustrates her linguistic approach to understanding how we use language to create meaning - and why communication so often goes awry. On a canvas of disciplines, from linguistics and psychology to anthropology and communication, Tannen paints a fascinating picture of how our everyday interactions are structured, how our conversational signals may be misunderstood, and how the various aspects of conversational style must be understood relatively, not in isolation. Moving beyond analysis, she proposes how understanding conversational styles can lift the burden of pathology and personality judgments from communication gone awry.
*Includes Instructor's Package FREE!
This package includes material outline, section synopses, suggested exercises and discussion questions, as well as relevant articles written by Deborah Tannen which may be duplicated and assigned as outside reading.
Divided into eight parts for easy reference:
1. Language & Meaning
2. Signals, Devices, & Rituals
3. Framing, Metamessage, & Schismogenesis
4. Pacing & Pausing
5. Overlap & Interruption
6. Indirectness
7. Listenership: Co-creating Meaning
8. Conversational Style & Relationships
*Closed Captioned
*Instructor Manual available for download
Bonus Companion Video
DEBORAH TANNEN: One on One (#10538) is the optional 25 minute companion program to THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! In this bonus presentation, Deborah Tannen goes in-depth to address key implications, criticisms, and the most commonly asked questions raised by the main program. [Note: NOT sold separately)