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The Modern Scholar presents…Communication Matters II: That’s Not What I Meant!Taught By Deborah Tannen Book Description================Communication Matters II: That’s Not What I Meant!Course SyllabusLecture 1   Conversational style: The Power of Language in Your LifeLecture 2   Linguistic Signals, Devices, and RitualsLecture 3   Framing and Reframing: How metamessages frame MeaningLecture 4   Power and Solidarity: The Interplay of Hierarchy and Connection Lecture 5    Indirectness: The Ways and Whys We Communicate Meaning Not in So Many WordsLecture 6   The Rhythms of Talk: Pacing, Pausing, Silence, and Interruption Lecture 7   Listenership: Conversation as a Joint ProductionLecture 8    Agonism: Programmed Contentiousness, Ritualized Opposition-Lecture 9   Gender: Women and Men TalkingLecture 10    Apologies in Private and Public ContextsLecture 11   Talking at Work: Institutional and Interactional Power Lecture 12   The Classroom: Talking in SchoolLecture 13   Politics: Talk in the Public ArenaLecture 14   What to Do with What You’ve Learned    The following series of lectures draws on linguistics, or the scientific study of language, to show the many ways in which language has a profound effect upon human relationships. These lectures address the various aspects and implications of what Professor Tannen calls “conversational style.”  It also looks at the dynamics of specific situations such as the workplace and classroom where the role of conversational style is of particular importance. A person’s conversational style includes far more than the words that he or she speaks. Each conversation is composed of contextual cues, unspoken messages, body language, and the rhythms of speech. For the most part, people communicate without a conscious focus on the subtleties of language. Through this course, the complexities of language, and all that language entails, will become more apparent. A better understanding of language, of how we communicate, and of how our ways of communicating differ based on who we are talking to should lead not only to a better understanding of ourselves and of those with whom we have relationships, but should also lead to improved communication. Our language shapes our lives in numerous, complex ways. These lectures help us to make sense of our language and will help to improve our relationship-s with friends, spouses, and coworkers. Professor Deborah TannenGeorgetown UniversityCourses: Communication Matters: Workplace, Communication Matters II: That’s Not What I Meant!, Communication Matters I: He Said / She Said: Women, Men and Language Biography: Deborah Tannen holds the distinguished rank of University Professor at Georgetown University, where she has been on the faculty of the linguistics department since 1979. Her book You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation was on The New York Times best-seller list for nearly four years, including eight months as number one; has sold more than two million copies; and has been translated into 29 languages. It was also on best-seller lists in Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, and Hong Kong. This is the book that brought gender differences in communicatio-n style to the forefront of public awareness. Of her other 18 books, Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work was a New York Times business best-seller; The Argument Culture: Stopping America’s War of Words won the Common Ground book award; and I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs and Kids When You’re All Adults, won a Books for a Better Life award. Her books written for scholarly readers include Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (Cambridge University Press), Gender & Discourse (Oxford University Press) and Conversational style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends (Ablex Publishing). Professor Tannen is an internationally recognized scholar who has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is Associate Editor of Language in Society and is on the editorial boards of many other journals. She is also an advisory editor of the book series Oxford Studies in Gender and Language. She has been awarded five honorary doctorates, and has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Deborah Tannen is a frequent guest on such news and information shows as 20/20, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and ABC World News Tonight as well as such networks as CNN and National Public Radio. She has written for most major magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, and The Harvard Business Review.