Deborah Tannen
Author of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
About the Author
Deborah Tannen is the bestselling author of "The Argument Culture", "Talking from 9 to 5", "That's Not What I Meant", & "You Just Don't Understand", which was on "The New York Times" bestseller list for nearly four years, including eight months as number one. She is a professor at Georgetown show more University, in Washington D.C. "I Only Say This Because I Love You" is her seventeenth book. Her latest book is entitled, "You Were Always Mom's Favorite: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives." (Publisher Provided) show less
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Works by Deborah Tannen
I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives (2001) 265 copies
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (Studies in Interactional… (1989) 37 copies
"Communication Matters - He Said/She Said: Women, Men and Language" (The Modern Scholar, Course One) (2003) 21 copies
Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow (2020) 11 copies
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real World:… (1982) 10 copies
Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse (Advances in Discourse Processes, Vol. 12) (1984) 9 copies
Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics) (2013) 9 copies
Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy (Advances in Discourse Processes) (1982) 8 copies
Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding: Linguistics in Context - Connecting Observation an… (1988) 2 copies
Deborah Tannen Boxed Set: Give The Gift Of Understanding / You Just Don't Understand / That's Not What I Meant! (1994) 2 copies
Warum sagen Sie nicht, was Sie meinen?: Jobtalk - wie Sie lernen, am Arbeitsplatz miteinander zu reden (2002) 2 copies
What!? 1 copy
Ordinary thunderstorms 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Tannen, Deborah
- Legal name
- Tannen, Deborah Frances
- Birthdate
- 1945-06-07
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Washington DC, USA
- Education
- Harpur College (BA | 1966)
Wayne State University (MA | 1970)
University of California, Berkeley (MA | 1976 | PhD | 1979 | Linguistics) - Occupations
- Professor of Linguistics
linguist
behavioral scientist
author
editor - Relationships
- Macovski, Michael (husband)
- Organizations
- Georgetown University
PEN/Faulkner Foundation (Board of Directors) - Awards and honors
- Fellow, Linguistics Society of America (2013)
- Short biography
- Deborah Tannen is one of a small number in Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences who hold the distinguished rank of University Professor; she is also Professor of Linguistics. The author of many books and articles about how the language of everyday conversation affects relationships, Prof. Tannen is best known for "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation," which was on the New York Times best seller list for nearly four years, including eight months as No. 1, and has been translated into 31 languages. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. In addition to her writing for general audiences, Prof. Tannen is author or editor of many books and over 100 hundred articles for scholarly audiences. She has also published poems, short stories, personal essays, and plays.
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You Just Don't Understand : Women and Men in… by Deborah Tannen
This bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon.
this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon.
As a librarian, I had seen this classic around for years. After listening to the Freakonomics book club podcast with the author, I finally decided to read it.
A lot of the research and findings that Deborah Tannen has accomplished in her career stems from this book that is now 30 years old. In that time, her findings have been absorbed into our culture through media, but some has been inaccurate. If possible, get a newer edition that includes the afterward. Well worth the read.
A lot of the research and findings that Deborah Tannen has accomplished in her career stems from this book that is now 30 years old. In that time, her findings have been absorbed into our culture through media, but some has been inaccurate. If possible, get a newer edition that includes the afterward. Well worth the read.
I read this a few years ago so can only go on a note made at the time that 'I think she has some good insights, but does go on a bit'.
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- Also by
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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