Why Can't We Get Along?

Can We Talk ~ A condensed excerpt from Deborah Tannen's book, You Just Don't Understand - Women and Men in Conversation

In this excerpt, Tannen taps into the source of communication problems between men and women. She writes, "As a specialist in linguistics, I have studied how the conversational styles of men and women differ. We cannot lump all men or all women into fixed categories. But the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play."