Can We Talk? How Conversational Style Affects Conversations and Relationships
Single Session Class | Available (Membership Required)
Wouldn’t this be a better world if we all just said what we mean? We do, but we do so in our own conversational styles-- all the linguistic aspects of how we say what we mean. Conversational styles tend to vary by a whole host of influences, including culture, ethnicity, gender, class, and geographic region. This lecture explains the concept of conversational style, showing how ways of speaking can differ, and how such differences can affect conversations--and relationships--among friends, family, romantic partners, and colleagues at work.
Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen is Distinguished University Professor in the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University. Best known among her many books is You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years, including eight months as No. 1, and has been translated into 31 languages. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post,?The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The Harvard Business Review. She has appeared on Oprah, The Colbert Report, 20/20, Good Morning America, PBS NewsHour, Nightline and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air.
Nora Quinlan
Nora Quinlan holds a B.A. in history from Queens College, CUNY, an M.S. in Library Service and an M.A. in art history from Columbia University. She was the head of special collections at the University of Colorado at Boulder, worked as a rare book cataloger at the University of Miami, and was an assistant special collections librarian at the University of Kansas. She has extensive training and experience working with art, rare books, manuscripts, early photographs, and ephemera. In addition, Nora was the head of Reference and Instructional Services at Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin Sherman Library and oversaw their gallery.