More on the gentle art of verbal self-defense

300 Pages·1997·91.71 MB·English

by  Suzette Haden Elgin

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Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D., is an applied psycholinguist and
an associate professor emeritus of linguistics at San Diego State
University. She is the author of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self
Defense (Prentice Hall/Spectrum Books) and is presently at the
Ozark Center for Language Studies, of which she is the founder.

MORE
ON THE
GENTLE
ART
OF
VERBAL
SELF~
DEFENSE
SUZETTE HADEN ELGIN
BARNES
&..NOBLE
8 0 0 K S
NEW YORK
Copyright © 1983 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.
This edition published by Barnes & Noble. Inc.,
by arrangement with Suzette Haden Elgin
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher.
1997 Barnes & Noble Books
ISBN 0-7607-042 I-X
Printed and bound in the United States of America
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Contents
Preface, xi
1
Introduction, 1
2
Back to the Basics, n
3
Using
the Satir Modes, 44
4
Using
the Sensory Modes,
73
5
Identifying
Verbal Attacks,
101
6
Responding
to Verbal Attacks,
132
7
Matching Realities,
169
8
Body Language,
200
9
Supplementary
Techniques,
222
Appendix:
A Verbal SeH-Defense
Survival Kit, 266
Bibliography
and References, 274
Index, 281