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More About This Textbook
Overview
This second edition features a new introduction in which the author shows the relationship between this groundbreaking work and the research that has appeared since its original publication in 1989. In particular, she shows its relevance to the contemporary topic "intertextuality," and provides an invaluable summary of research on that topic.
About the Author:
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
'Pleasant to read and constantly stimulating … an excellent introduction to the kind of analysis T[annen] does so well.' Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Language' … a very stimulating book, it makes one look with fresh eyes on conversation and what it can tell us about linguistic structures in general.' N. F. Blake, Lore and Language
'Tannen should be applauded for pulling together work on … a host of discourse features. She does so, moreover, in a highly readable form that is surprisingly devoid of jargon.' Charles L. Briggs, American Anthropologist
'Work like Tannen's reminds us how complex conversational interactions are.' Studies in Second Language Acquisition
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Meet the Author
Biography
In 2001, Deborah Tannen published a book that explored the eternally complex relationship between men and women, specifically why communication can be so darn difficult between the sexes. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation clearly struck a chord with its readers, spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list (holding the No. 1 spot for eight weeks) and having been translated into 29 languages. Bolstered by Tannen's extensive experience as a linguist, You Just Don't Understand has played a significant role in improving relations between men and women throughout the world.Tannen followed her breakthrough work with several others that have tackled the difficulties in improving communication on the job (Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work), the source of argumentativeness (The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words), and general disagreements within families (I Only Say This Because I Love You). Now Tannen is turning her attention to improving communications between two groups that share one of the most complicated relationships of all: mothers and daughters.
You're Wearing That?: Understanding Daughters and Mothers in Conversation is yet another ambitious attempt to examine, understand, and resolve the long-standing communication difficulties that so often plague families. Tannen delineated the nature of the particularly thorny interactions between mothers and daughters in an article she recently wrote for The Washington Post. In her article, Tannen stated that "there is a special intensity to the mother-daughter relationship because talk -- particularly talk about personal topics -- plays a larger and more complex role in girls' and women's social lives than in boys' and men's. For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together -- and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation."
You're Wearing That? is her attempt to defuse such potential explosiveness, to get to the root of why daughters and mothers so often hit walls when relating to one another. Tannen's own strained relationship with her ailing mother was part of the impetus that caused her to begin asking the questions that this insightful book strives to answer. Along the way, she explored not only her own relationship with her mother but those of many others, as well. "I interviewed dozens of women of varied geographic, racial and cultural backgrounds," she explained in her article. "I had informal conversations or e-mail exchanges with countless others. The complaint I heard most often from daughters was, ‘My mother is always criticizing me.' The corresponding complaint from mothers was, ‘I can't open my mouth. She takes everything as criticism.' Both are right, but each sees only her perspective."
Once again, Tannen has proven her skills as a great communicator, and has penned another instant classic in the field of self-improvement. You're Wearing That? has already achieved bestseller status and inspired Miriam Wolf of the San Francisco Chronicle to call it "a book any mother would be proud her daughter wrote." Tannen should surely be proud that she has made such a significant and positive impact on those who have read her work.
Good To Know
Make no mistake: Deborah Tannen is not just another self-help guru. She has published an impressive body of work that includes 20 books and over 100 articles. She is also the recipient of five honorary doctorates.Tannen may be most famous for her linguistics studies, but she has also published short stories, poems, personal essays, and plays. In fact, her first play, An Act of Devotion, was chosen for inclusion in The Best American Short Plays: 1993-1994.
The sage relationship advice that Tannen has imparted is not limited to the printed page. She has also lectured all over the world, once addressing an audience of U.S. senators and their spouses.
Some interesting outtakes from our interview with Tannen:
"I lived in Greece for several years; I speak Greek and consider Greece my second home. The first book I ever wrote was literary criticism about a modern Greek writer, Lilika Nakou."
"One of the most exciting experiences I have ever had was seeing a play I wrote produced by Horizons Theater in Washington, D.C. Another was having my play An Act of Devotion accepted and published in Best American Short Plays 1993-1994."
"I didn't start grad school in linguistics until I was 30. When I graduated from college, I had no ambitions other than to travel and not to go grad school. I worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Manhattan, lived with my parents in Brooklyn, and saved my money to go to Europe on a one-way ticket. My plan was to go around the world. But I got only as far as Greece, where I got a job teaching English. It was through teaching English as a second language that I first became aware of linguistics."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to first edition 1
Overview of chapters 1
Discourse analysis 5
Introduction to second edition 8
Intertextuality 8
Intertextuality and repetition 10
Intertextuality in interaction: creating identity 12
Intertextuality and power 13
Repetition as intertextuality in discourse 15
Constructed dialogue 17
Repetition and dialogue in interactional discourse 20
Ventriloquizing 21
Involvement in discourse 25
Involvement 25
Sound and sense in discourse 29
Involvement strategies 32
Scenes and music in creating involvement 42
Repetition in conversation: toward a poetics of talk 48
Theoretical implications of repetition 48
Repetition in discourse 57
Functions of repetition in conversation 58
Repetition and variation in conversation 62
Examples of functions of repetition 67
The range of repetition in a segment of conversation 78
Individual and cultural differences 84
Other genres 86
The automaticity of repetition 92
The drive to imitate 97
Conclusion 100
"Oh talking voice that is so sweet": constructing dialogue in conversation 102
Reported speech and dialogue 103
Dialogue in storytelling 105
Reported criticism in conversation 107
Reported speech is constructed dialogue 112
Constructed dialogue in a conversational narrative 120
Modern Greek stories 124
Brazilian narrative 128
Dialogue in writers' conversation 130
Conclusion 132
Imagining worlds: imagery and detail in conversation and other genres 133
The role of details and images in creating involvement 134
Details in conversation 135
Images and details in narrative 137
Nonnarrative or quasinarrative conversational discourse 141
Rapport through telling details 145
The intimacy of details 146
Spoken literary discourse 147
Written discourse 149
High-involvement writing 154
When details don't work or work for ill 156
Conclusion 159
Involvement strategies in consort: literary nonfiction and political oratory 161
Thinking with feeling 161
Literary nonfiction 162
Speaking and writing with involvement 165
Involvement in political oratory 166
Conclusion 185
Afterword: toward a humanistic linguistics 187
Sources of examples 189
Transcription conventions 193
Notes 196
List of references 211
Author index 227
Subject index 230