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You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of ...

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of ...

Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen's bestselling You Just Don't Understand: Conversations Between Women and Men made us aware of the deep and subtle meanings behind the words we say.
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Deborah Tannen

In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton, eds., The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 1–11. Intertextuality in Discourse 57 performance: dialogic observations. Journal of Linguistic JWST555 -01 ...
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in ...

Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in ...

Deborah Tannen

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books about the role of language in human ...
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends

Deborah Tannen

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of ...
Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Alexandra Jaffe

In The handbook of discourse analysis, ed. Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton, 34–53. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Rauniomaa, Mirka. 2007. Stance markers in spoken Finnish: Minun mielestä and minusta in assessments.
The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

Deborah Tannen

Sometimes these approaches work well, but often they create more problems than they solve.
Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk

Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk

Deborah Tannen

This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder.
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Deborah Tannen

This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness.
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

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Scollon, Ron and Suzanne Wong Scollon. 2003. Discourse and Intercultural Communication. In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton (eds. ). Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell. 538–47. Searle, John. 1969.
Gender and Discourse

Gender and Discourse

Deborah Tannen

These essays provide a theoretical backdrop to her best-selling books--and an informative introduction which discusses her field of linguistics, describes the research methods she typically uses, and addresses the controversies surrounding ...
Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families

Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families

Deborah Tannen

The volume also contributes to the discourse analysis of naturally-occurring interaction and makes significant contributions to theories of framing in interaction.
Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work

Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work

Deborah Tannen

An instant classic, Talking From 9 to 5 brilliantly explains women's and men's conversational rituals--and the language barriers we unintentionally erect in the business world.
The feminist critique of language: a reader

The feminist critique of language: a reader

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This edition includes extracts from Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Debbie Cameron, Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates ...
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...

Deborah Tannen

Ringelheim, Joan, Arwen Donahue, and Amy Rubin. 1998. Oral history interview guidelines. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Rorty, Richard. 1967. The linguistic turn. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Margaret Wheatley

i, Aeron Miller xii, Meg Wheatley xviii, DanielSeguin.ca 3, Deborah Frieze 6, Paul Winder 9, Deborah Frieze 1617, Illustration by Todd Stewart 18, Deborah Frieze 21, Deborah Frieze 23, Alex Lewin 23, Deborah Frieze 26, Aerin Dunford 26, ...
When I Met the Wolf Girls

When I Met the Wolf Girls

Deborah Noyes

Deborah Noyes. Text copyright © 2007 by Deborah Noyes Illustrations copyright © 2007 by August Hall All rights reserved. ... Book design by Carol Goldenberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Noyes, Deborah. When I met  ...
Deborah

Deborah

Carol Fitzpatrick

God has called Deborah to lead the people of Israel out of captivity. But how can just one woman do this? Find out how God worked through Deborah to save His people. Illustrated.
Swallowing Geography

Swallowing Geography

Deborah Levy

Swallowing Geography is a stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted Deborah Levy. Embedded in this beautifully written novel is Deborah Levy's gift for blending fairytale with biting satire.
First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New ...

First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New ...

Diana Theodores

'3 Deborah Jowitt, Dance Beat, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., 1977, “Preface”, p. v. '3 Deborah Jowitt, The Dance in Mind, Boston: David Godine, 1985, “Preface ”, p. x. '3 Nancy Goldner, The Stravinsky Festival of the New York. The Deborah ...
Gender and Conversational Interaction

Gender and Conversational Interaction

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The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles are approached as different "cultural" practice.
Waiting for Deborah

Waiting for Deborah

Betty Neels

When she is rescued by consultant Sir James Marlow, who seems to have taken an interest in her, Deborah, sorely lacking in self-confidence, vows to discover his true motives. Reissue.
Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese ...

Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese ...

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38 Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco A TOUGH GUY 55 Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco A SENIOR RED GUARD'S APOLOGIA 6} Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco THE 3,650 DAYS ...
Swimming Home

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy

Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials

Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials

Deborah Jones

Deborah Jones has embroidered it all, from slippery synthetic sheers to the thickest velvet.
One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond ...

One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond ...

Deborah Noyes

Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond in Myth, History, Science, and Story Deborah Noyes. Copyright text and photographs © 2006 by Deborah Noyes Nineteenth'century line art by Georges Cuvier Excerpt from "The Long ...
Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

Deborah Madison

These are recipes to savor throughout the week—quick weekday meals as well as more leisurely weekend or company fare—and throughout the year.
Deborah Kerr: A Biography

Deborah Kerr: A Biography

Michelangelo Capua

"Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memorable studies of English gentility.
The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

Matthew Beedham

Deborah Guth: Distortions Reflected Clear In one of the most helpful discussions of the novel, Deborah Guth argues that Stevens does eventually see what he has lost. She begins, however, with an analysis of what the novel says without ...
The Ghosts of Kerfol

The Ghosts of Kerfol

Deborah Noyes

In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl.

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