Deborah Tannen
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Deborah Tannen (born June 7, 1951) 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.
Bibliography
- Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work (ISBN 0380717832)
- That's Not What I Meant!
- You Just Don't Understand
- The Argument Culture
- 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.
External links
- Tannen's home page at Georgetown University (http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/)