of herself and similar individual's stories to help the audience relate and visualize pertinent information. Her main assumption is that, "Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication." (Tannen, pg. 42) In her book she gives us numerous examples and anecdotes to support her claims about men and women in conversation. Her pursuit consists of, "It's not really what people say but rather how they say it." She believes that the "cross-cultural encounter" is the most confusing aspect of gender communication; men and women don't understand that they speak to each other very differently. Tannen's basic premise of cross-cultural communication is that different conversational styles leads to "different words, different worlds" (Tannen, pg. 23).
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