Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is a professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of several popular books about the way people in social situations talk to each other. By studying these interactions, she attempts to help others to understand them and so get along better in relationships.

Tannen, however, is primarily a linguist, and thus her works arguably have more relevance to the furthering of a theoretical understanding of talk and social interaction than they do to the practical improvement of day-to-day relationships.

She attended Binghamton University as an undergraduate, then continued to earn her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1979.

Bibliography

• Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work (ISBN 0380717832)
• That's Not What I Meant! (ISBN 0345340900) (ISBN 0345340906)
• You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation (ISBN 0060959622)
• The Argument Culture (ISBN 0345407511) (ISBN 0345407512)
• I Only Say This Because I Love You (ISBN 0345407520)
• Talking Voices: Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse, Cambridge University Press, 1989. (ISBN 0521370019) Hardcover. (ISBN 0521379008) Paperback.
• You're Wearing That?: Mothers and Daughters in Conversation, 2006 (ISBN 1400062586)

External links

• Tannen's home page at Georgetown University
• Listen to Deborah Tannen discuss communication on the Open Grove

1945 births | Living people | American linguists | Linguists | Sociolinguists | Georgetown University faculty | Jewish American writers

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