Description
As bestselling author Suzette Haden Elgin proves, you don't have tolive your life on red alert. With her Gentle Art of VerbalSelf-Defense techniques, you'll be able to respond clearly tohostile comments from others--or deliver necessary negativemessages of your own--without sacrificing your dignity orprinciples. You'll learn to:
* Keep domestic disagreements from escalating
* Deliver criticism to coworkers, employers, or employees
* Handle aggressive, negative comments about race, politics, orreligion
* Provide discipline without increasing hostility
* Use language that reduces tension and creates rapport in everysituation
Author: Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 04/08/1997
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.13w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780471157014
ISBN10: 0471157015
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Family & Relationships | Conflict Resolution
* Keep domestic disagreements from escalating
* Deliver criticism to coworkers, employers, or employees
* Handle aggressive, negative comments about race, politics, orreligion
* Provide discipline without increasing hostility
* Use language that reduces tension and creates rapport in everysituation
Author: Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 04/08/1997
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.13w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780471157014
ISBN10: 0471157015
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Family & Relationships | Conflict Resolution
About the Author
Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D., is the founder of the Ozark Center for Language Studies, near Huntsville, Arkansas. She is nationally recognized for her seminars and public speaking and is the author of ten books on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, including Genderspeak, You Can't Say That to Me!, The Gentle Art of Communicating with Kids and Try to Feel It My Way (all published by Wiley).