I Only Say this Because I Love You

How the Way We Talk Can Make Or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives

Author: Deborah Tannen
ISBN: 0679456015

, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages — unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said. Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen reveals what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we s

Publisher: Random House
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Family & Relationships / General, Psychology / Interpersonal Relations

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