Deborah Tannen
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Deborah Tannen's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters English Literature Wayne State University
Why Is Deborah Tannen Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Deborah Frances Tannen is an American author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Best known as the author of You Just Don't Understand, she has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
Deborah Tannen's Published Works
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- Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (1989) (1962)
- You just don't understand: women and men in conversation. morrow (1990) (1462)
- The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2001) (881)
- Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends (1984) (721)
- Framing in Discourse (1993) (719)
- Gender and discourse (1994) (682)
- Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview (1987) (599)
- You Just Don't Understand (1990) (555)
- Spoken and written language : exploring orality and literacy (1984) (456)
- Gender and conversational interaction (1994) (399)
- Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Narratives. (1982) (358)
- Talking voices: Repetition in conversation: toward a poetics of talk (1987) (339)
- Analyzing discourse : text and talk (1982) (311)
- The Relation Between Written and Spoken Language (1987) (285)
- Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work. (1996) (262)
- The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why. (1995) (244)
- Perspectives on Silence (1985) (241)
- Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse (1984) (220)
- That's Not What I Meant! (1987) (200)
- New York Jewish Conversational Style (1981) (194)
- The argument culture : moving from debate to dialogue (1998) (188)
- Introducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conversational and literary narrative (1986) (177)
- The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words (1998) (176)
- The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance (2009) (163)
- That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others (1992) (163)
- Indirectness in discourse: Ethnicity as conversational style∗ (1981) (158)
- Gender differences in topical coherence: Creating involvement in best friends' talk (1990) (153)
- Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse (2004) (143)
- Linguistics in Context : Connecting Observation and Understanding (1988) (128)
- Individual and Social Differences in Language Use (1979) (120)
- Agonism in academic discourse (2002) (116)
- Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work: Language, Sex and Power (1994) (114)
- Repetition in conversation as spontaneous formulaicity (1987) (114)
- Researcher/ Interviewer in intercultural context: a social intruder (2010) (113)
- The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication1 (1984) (112)
- Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men in the workplace : language, sex and power (1995) (112)
- That's not what I meant! : how conversational style makes or breaks relationships (2011) (109)
- Talking from 9 to 5 (1994) (94)
- Power and Solidarity in Modern Greek Conversation: Disagreeing to Agree (2010) (92)
- EPISODES AS UNITS OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (2006) (92)
- Abduction and identity in family interaction: Ventriloquizing as indirectness (2010) (88)
- The Language Parallax: Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy (1987) (82)
- Intertextuality in interaction: Reframing family arguments in public and private (2006) (82)
- Talking voices: Author index (2007) (74)
- Gender and language in the workplace. (1997) (71)
- Discourse and Gender (2008) (65)
- Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families (2007) (64)
- Health to Our Mouths: Formulaic Expressions in Turkish and Greek. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (1977) (58)
- Language and social identity: Ethnic style in male–female conversation (1983) (58)
- Conversational strategy and metastrategy in a pragmatic theory: The example of Scenes from a Marriage (1984) (56)
- Interactional Sociolinguistics as a resource for Intercultural Pragmatics (2005) (55)
- Languages and linguistics : the interdependence of theory, data, and application (1986) (53)
- Medical professionals and parents: A linguistic analysis of communication across contexts (1986) (52)
- Different games, different rules : why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other (1997) (48)
- The machine-gun question: An example of conversational style (1981) (46)
- Gender in Research on Language: Researching Gender-Related Patterns in Classroom Discourse (1996) (44)
- The Myth of Orality and Literacy (1982) (44)
- The Handbook of Discourse Analysis: Tannen/Discourse (2015) (43)
- “We’re never been close, we’re very different”: Three narrative types in sister discourse (2008) (40)
- Gender and Family Interaction (2008) (39)
- Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance (1990) (39)
- Blame the Victim (1986) (38)
- The Argument Culture - Changing The Way We Argue And Debate (1998) (38)
- Turn‐Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication (2012) (35)
- Spoken and Written Language (1982) (34)
- The effect of expectations on conversation (1978) (33)
- 30. Discourse and Gender (2015) (32)
- I only say this because I love you : how the way we talk can make or break family relationships throughout our lives (2001) (32)
- You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation (2006) (28)
- Spoken/Written Language and the Oral/Literate Continuum (1980) (27)
- Framing and Face: The Relevance of The Presentation of Self to Linguistic Discourse Analysis (2009) (24)
- Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Washington, D.C., 1981). (1981) (23)
- Processes and Consequences of Conversational Style (1979) (21)
- "Don't Just Sit There-Interrupt!" Pacing and Pausing in Conversational Style (2000) (21)
- THE COMMINGLING OF ORALITY AND LITERACY IN GIVING A PAPER AT A SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE (1988) (21)
- Father as Breadwinner, Mother as Worker: Gendered Positions in Feminist and Traditional Discourses of Work and Family (2007) (20)
- “I just feel horribly embarrassed when she does that”: Constituting a Mother’s Identity (2007) (20)
- Ordinary Conversation and Literary Discourse: Coherence and the Poetics of Repetition a (1990) (20)
- Power Maneuvers and Connection Maneuvers in Family Interaction (2007) (18)
- Talking voices: “Oh talking voice that is so sweet”: constructing dialogue in conversation (2007) (17)
- I only say this because I love you : talking to your parents, partner, sibs, and kids when you're all adults (2002) (16)
- Linguistics, language, and the real world : discourse and beyond (2003) (16)
- OH TALKING VOICE THAT IS SO SWEET : THE POETIC NATURE OF CONSERVATION (1998) (16)
- How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement (1992) (14)
- Introduction: Family Talk (2007) (12)
- Abduction, Dialogicality and Prior Text: The Taking on of Voices in Conversational Discourse 1 (2009) (11)
- Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men in the workplace edited with notes and exercises (2000) (11)
- Toward a Theory of Conversational Style: The Machine-Gun Question. (1980) (10)
- Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (2013) (10)
- Conversational Patterns across Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: Implications for Classroom Discourse (1997) (9)
- Linguistics in Context : Connecting Observation and Understanding : Lectures from the 1985 LSA/TESOL and NEH Institutes (1988) (9)
- Finding the Right Balance between Connection and Control: A Father's Identity Construction in Conversations with His College-Age Daughter (2007) (9)
- Talking voices: Contents (2007) (9)
- Family Members Interacting While Watching TV (2007) (9)
- Chapter 8. Gender and Family Interaction (2008) (9)
- Gatekeeping in the Family: How Family Members Position One Another as Decision Makers (2007) (9)
- Well What Did You Expect (1977) (9)
- The Inevitability of the Personal (1996) (8)
- Discourse in Cross-Cultural Communication (1988) (8)
- The Argument Culture: Agonism & the Common Good (2013) (8)
- Sharing Common Ground: The Role of Place Reference in Parent-Child Conversation (2007) (8)
- You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives (2009) (7)
- Ethnicity as Conversational Style. Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number 55. (1979) (6)
- Discourse analysis: The excitement of diversity (1990) (6)
- Communication Strategies in Conversation: The Case of Scenes from a Marriage (1979) (6)
- The Parameters of Conversational Style (1980) (6)
- Power maneuvers or connection maneuvers ? (2009) (6)
- A Working Father: One Man's Talk about Parenting at Work (2007) (5)
- A Cross-Cultural Study of Oral Narrative Style (1978) (5)
- When someone you love dies (1985) (4)
- Introduction to the First Edition (2015) (4)
- John Gumperz: an appreciation (2011) (4)
- Mothers and daughters in the modern greek novels of Lilika Nakos (1979) (3)
- With a daughter's eye: A memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson By Mary Catherine Bateson (review) (2015) (3)
- That is not what I mean (1987) (3)
- QUESTION 4: Conversational Style: Do Women and Men Speak Different Languages? (2017) (3)
- Three narrative types in sister discourse (2008) (3)
- He Said, She Said (2010) (3)
- cs Gender and Conversational Interaction (2009) (2)
- cs Gender and Conversational Interaction (2009) (2)
- Hugh Mehan, Learning lessons: Social organization in the classroom . Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. 227. (1981) (2)
- D&S Forum (1992) (2)
- Neal Norrick, How proverbs mean: Semantic studies in English proverbs . Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. 213. (1988) (2)
- Three decades in the field of gender and language (2021) (2)
- Unawareness Without Ignorance: Unexploited Contributions to Sociology (1991) (2)
- EDITOR'S NOTE (2012) (1)
- Talking voices: Involvement in discourse (2007) (1)
- The Taking on of Voices in Conversational Discourse (2010) (1)
- Variation and Thanksgiving Dinner@@@Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends (1986) (1)
- Lilika Nakos writes about her mother (1979) (1)
- Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real WorldDiscourse and Beyond (2003) (1)
- Talking voices: Appendix I: Sources of examples (2007) (0)
- LSY volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
- Chapter 12. Crossing over (2020) (0)
- Index to Volume 25, 1998 (1996) (0)
- LSY volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
- The Making of a Reader.@@@Language Assessment in the Early Years.@@@Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends. (1986) (0)
- An Informally Annotated Bibliography of Sociolinguistics. (1978) (0)
- The Povver of Talk : by Deborah Tannen (2017) (0)
- LSY volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
- An Act of Devotion (2014) (0)
- LSY volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
- Interactional sociolinguistics (2021) (0)
- LSY volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
- Talking voices: Afterword: toward a humanistic linguistics (2007) (0)
- Deborah Tannen reads at Fall for the Book 2006 at George Mason University (2007) (0)
- multi-functional nature of linguistic strategies, the influence of situation on gender-related use of language, and the intimate connection between theory (2009) (0)
- Consequences of Agonism (1998) (0)
- Talking voices: Appendix II: Transcription conventions (2007) (0)
- Analysis in the Legal Context (2002) (0)
- LSY volume 40 issue 5 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
- LSY volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2017) (0)
- Talking voices: List of references (2007) (0)
- The Ambiguity and Polysemy of Power and Solidarity in Professor-Student Emails and Conversations among Friends (2021) (0)
- Involvement strategies in consort: literary nonfiction and political oratory (2007) (0)
- Well What Did You Expect? - eScholarship (1977) (0)
- LSY volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1985) (0)
- Talking voices: Notes (2007) (0)
- [Varying styles of communication in men and women. ...then you better bite your tongue]. (1995) (0)
- The Dynamics of Closeness/Distance and Sameness/Difference in Discourse About Sisters (2009) (0)
- LSY volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
- Gender in the Classroom (2001) (0)
- LSY volume 38 issue 5 Cover and Back matter (2009) (0)
- He said, she said : exploring the different ways men and women communicate (2004) (0)
- Talking voices: Imagining worlds: imagery and detail in conversation and other genres (2007) (0)
- Fall 2012: On Public Opinion (2012) (0)
- Talking voices: Introduction to second edition (2007) (0)
- Talking voices: Introduction to first edition (2007) (0)
- Introduction (1986) (0)
- l Indirectness in Discourse : Ethnicity as Conversational Style * (2017) (0)
- Analysis to Linguistic Discourse The Presentation of Self Framing and Face : The Relevance of (2010) (0)
- LSY volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
- Virginia Woolf and the Art of Female Conversation: Thr ough the Looking Glass of (1999) (0)
- Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics (2023) (0)
- Index to Volume 24, 1995 (1995) (0)
- Clftl in Engl ish and Greek * (2009) (0)
- [Women and men talking to each other in the work place. Misunderstandings among female colleagues]. (1995) (0)
- LSY volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2015) (0)
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