27 Facts About Deborah Tannen

Deborah Frances Tannen was born on June 7,1945 and is an American author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC 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 is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Time magazine, among other publications.

Deborah Tannen went on to earn a master's in English literature at Wayne State University.

Deborah Tannen took up a position at Georgetown in 1979 and subsequently became a Distinguished University of Professor in Linguistics there.

Deborah Tannen has written and edited numerous academic publications on linguistics, discourse analysis, and interpersonal communication.

Deborah Tannen has published many books including Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends; Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse; Gender and Discourse; and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis.

Deborah Tannen's major theoretical contribution, presented in Talking Voices, is a poetics of conversation.

Deborah Tannen has written nine general-audience books on interpersonal communication and public discourse as well as a memoir.

Deborah Tannen became well known in the United States after her book You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation was published in 1990.

Deborah Tannen has written several other general-audience books and mainstream articles between 1983 and 2017.

Deborah Tannen has explored conversational interaction and style differences at a number of different levels and as related to different situations, including differences in conversational style as connected to the gender and cultural background, as well as speech that is tailored for specific listeners based on the speaker's social role.

In particular, Deborah Tannen has done extensive gender-linked research and writing that focused on miscommunications between men and women, which later developed into what is known as the genderlect theory of communication.

Deborah Tannen's research began when she analyzed her friends while working on her Ph.

Deborah Tannen has compiled and analyzed information from other researchers in order to draw out notable trends in various types of conversations, sometimes borrowing and expanding on their terminology to emphasize new points of interest.

Deborah Tannen highlighted the "Telling Your Day" ritual that takes place in many US families, in which, typically, the mother in a two-parent family encourages a child to share details with the father.

Deborah Tannen emphasizes the common occurrence of the "troubles talk" ritual in women.

Deborah Tannen cites this ritual as an example of how, for many women, closeness is established through sharing personal details.

Deborah Tannen coined the term "connection maneuvers" to describe interactions that take place in the closeness dimension of the traditional model of power and connection; this term is meant to contrast with the "control maneuvers", which, according to psychologists Millar, Rogers, and Bavelas, take place in the power dimension of the same model.

Deborah Tannen challenged the conventional view of power and connection as "unidimensional and mutually exclusive" and offered her own kind of model for mapping the interplay of these two aspects of communication, which takes the form of a two-dimensional grid.

Deborah Tannen describes the notion of conversational style as "a semantic process" and "the way meaning is encoded in and derived from speech".

Deborah Tannen cites the work of R Lakoff and J Gumperz as the inspiration behind her thinking.

Deborah Tannen refers to the New Yorkers' style as "high-involvement" and the unimposing style of the non-New Yorkers as "high-considerateness".

Deborah Tannen has expressed her stance against taking indirect speech as a sign of weakness or as a lack of confidence; she set out to debunk the idea that American women are generally more indirect than men.

Deborah Tannen reached this conclusion by looking through transcripts of conversations and interviews, as well as through correspondence with her readers.

Deborah Tannen observed this same tendency of Greeks and Greek-Americans to interpret statements indirectly in a study that involved interpreting the following conversation between a husband and a wife:.

Deborah Tannen analyzed the agonistic framing of academic texts, which are characterized by their "ritualized adversativeness".

Deborah Tannen argued that expectations for academic papers in the US place the highest importance on presenting the weaknesses of an existing, opposing, argument as a basis for bolstering the author's replacement argument.