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1. Best Book on Today's Topic
You Just Don't Understand:Women and Men in Conversation, by
In my view, the very best book in print on this topic.Readable and engaging.Professor Tannen distills a large number of studies on how the two genders use language and interact into bite-size nuggets of understandable and useful knowledge.Check it out on my website's bookstore (along with 80 other books related to conversation.)
http://astore.amazon.com/conversati05c-20?node=1&page=5
2. Conversation Quotation
"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships."
Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
Acknowledge people for a job well done.Yes,
kids, too.A verbal pat on the back does wonders
to lift a person's spirits.
5. Useful Foreign Word: schadenfreude
6. Word-a-Week: eclectic (adj)
ih-KLEK-tik
"The new art gallery offered an eclectic mix of modern paintings."
Loren Ekroth �2010, all rights reserved
Loren Ekroth, Ph.D. is a specialist in human communication anda national expert on conversation for business and social life.
Contact atLoren@conversationmatters.com