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Deborah Tannen

Author of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Includes the names: Debora Tannen, Deborah Tannen, Deborah Tannen, Debrorah Tannen, Ph.D. Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Deborah Tannen, editor Deborah Tannen, Professor Deborah Tannen

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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 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) — biography from You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation… (more)

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Works by Deborah Tannen

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation 2,465 copies, 27 reviews

That's Not What I Meant! 794 copies, 8 reviews

Talking From 9 to 5 649 copies, 7 reviews

You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation 498 copies, 9 reviews

The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words 349 copies, 4 reviews

I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break… 261 copies, 3 reviews

Gender and Discourse 162 copies, 1 review

You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout… 120 copies, 6 reviews

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (Editor) 64 copies

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends 54 copies

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships 51 copies

Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational… 36 copies

He Said, She Said (Exploring the Different Ways Men and Women Communicate) 35 copies

Gender and Conversational Interaction 35 copies

Framing in Discourse 21 copies

"Communication Matters - He Said/She Said: Women, Men and Language" (The… 20 copies, 1 review

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)… 10 copies

Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy (Advances in… 10 copies

Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse (Advances in Discourse… 9 copies

Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Georgetown University Round Table… 9 copies

Health hazards of environmental arsenic poisoning : from epidemic to… 8 copies

Perspectives on Silence 7 copies

Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families 6 copies

Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My… 6 copies, 1 review

Não Nos Estamos a Entender 3 copies

Linguistics, language, and the real world : discourse and beyond 3 copies

Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding:… 2 copies

Lilika Nakos 2 copies

The Modern Scholar: He Said/She Said: Women, Men and Language 1 copy

Warum sagen Sie nicht, was Sie meinen?: Jobtalk - wie Sie lernen, am… 1 copy

What!? 1 copy

Deborah Tannen Boxed Set: Give the Gift of Understanding/You Just… 1 copy

Deborah Tannen Boxed Set: Give The Gift Of Understanding / You Just Don't… 1 copy

Ma perché non mi capisci? Alla ricerca di un linguaggio comune fra… 1 copy

Ordinary thunderstorms 1 copy

The Modern Scholar: That's Not What I Meant: The Sociolinguistics of… 1 copy

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Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (Contributor) 137 copies, 35 reviews

What’s Language Got to Do with It? (Contributor) 51 copies, 2 reviews

A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing (Contributor) 46 copies

An Introduction to Language and Linguistics (Contributor) 38 copies

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Canonical name

Tannen, Deborah

Legal name

Tannen, Deborah Frances

Other names

Date of birth

1945-06-07

Date of death

Burial location

Gender

female

Nationality

USA

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Place of death

Cause of death

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

Relationships

Macovski, Michael (husband)

Agents

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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