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The program is divided into seven parts for easy reference:
1. Boys & Girls; 2. Status and Connection; 3. Directness &
Indirectness;
4. Public Talk & Private Talk; 5. Ritual Opposition; 6.
Conversational
Style; 7. Conclusion.
A videotape of a presentation to a university audience in which Deborah Tannen lays out and illustrates her linguistic approach to understanding conversations between women and men. Including video clips of children at play and talking to their best friends, Tannen illustrates her claim that ways of speaking that tend to characterize and sometimes distinguish men and women can be traced to conversational styles learned as children growing up. Topics include:
why
many men don’t like to stop and ask for directions
When
do women tend to be more indirect than men–and when do men tend to be
more
indirect than women?
Who
talks more, women or men?
Why
are women so often told, “Don’t apologize; it’s not your fault”?
Why
do so many women complain, “He doesn’t talk to me and he doesn’t
listen,”
whereas many men complain “She nags”?
What
conversational rituals common among women are taken too literally by
men,
and what conversational rituals
common among men are taken too literally
by women?
Includes an Instructor’s Package outlining the lecture, suggesting
exercises
and discussion points, and reproducing two essays in which Tannen goes
deeply into the topic.
“Deborah Tannen: In Depth” (25 minutes) is a companion video in which Tannen addresses key issues, including:
the
nature/nurture questions: are conversational styles born or made?
Is
gender the most important factor affecting conversational interaction?
Are
these patterns cross-cultural?
What
about power and dominance?
How
are Linguistic and psychological approaches different?
To order, phone or fax:
Into The Classrom Media
800-732-7946
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Into The Classroom Media
10573 W. Pico Blvd., #162
Los Angeles, CA 90064
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That's Not What I
Meant! Language, Culture, and Meaning (55 minutes)
The program is divided into eight
parts for easy reference: 1. Language & Meaning; 2. Signals,
Devices, & Rituals; 3. Metamessage & Framing; 4. Pacing &
Pausing; 5. Overlap & Interruption; 6. Indirectness; 7.
Listenership; 8. Conversational Style.
A videotape of a presentation to a university audience in which
Deborah 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.
Deborah Tannen: 1
on 1 (25 minutes) is a companion video in which Tannen
addresses key
issues, including:
Why is this Linguistics?
Psychology &
Linguistics
Presentation Rituals
& Avoidance Rituals
Contextualization Cues
Conversational Rules
Methodology
Metamessage & Framing
Why Focus on
Misunderstanding?
To order, phone or fax
Into the Classroom Media
800-732-7946
or mail your purchase order to:
Into the Classroom Media
10573 W. Pico Blvd., #162
Los Angeles, CA 90064
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