Tannen's work has been thoroughly discredited regarding its lack of evidence. See: Goldsmith, D. J., & Fulfs, P. A. (1999). "You just don't have the evidence": An analysis of claims and evidence in Deborah Tannen's You just don't understand. In M. E. Roloff (Ed.), Communication yearbook 22 (pp. 1-49). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. It is also thoroughly confused--she vacillates between saying that men and women differ in their focus on negative vs. positive face and saying that they differ in terms of how they communicate regardless of focus. To see how shaky her logic and evidence is, see her film "He said, she said" in which she presents both claims just mentioned in rapid succession and also presents video taped "evidence" for her positions that actually seem to show the opposite of what she claims they do. --Christian Nelson On Oct 18, 2008, at 6:12 PM, John B. White, PhD wrote:
Stephanie Bennett wrote:
Julia Wood's GENDERED LIVES may work for you.
As additional readings...maybe Dr. Tannen's texts:
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work
JW
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