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General Information=================== Title:                  Communication Matters II: That’s Not What I Meant! Author:                 The Modern Scholar Read By:                Deborah Tannen Copyright:              2004 Genre:                  Lecture Publisher:              Recorded Books LLC Abridged:               NoBook 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 relationships with friends, spouses, and coworkers. Professor Deborah TannenGeorgetown University