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Deborah Tannen

American sociolinguist (born 1945)

Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) 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, New Jersey.

Tannen is the author of thirteen books, including That's Not What I Meant! and You Just Don't Understand, the latter of which spent four years on the New York Times Best Sellers list, including eight consecutive months at number one.^[1] She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Time magazine, among other publications.^[2]

Education

Tannen graduated from Hunter College High School and completed her undergraduate studies at Harpur College (now part of Binghamton University) with a B.A. in English literat

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Deborah Tannen is university professor and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Her books and articles address such topics as spoken and written language; cross-cultural communication; everyday conversation in English and Greek; linguistic parallels between everyday conversation and literary discourse; the increasingly adversarial nature of public discourse; gender and language; and the language of social media. The recipient of five honorary doctorates, she has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University; has spent a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ; and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Among her 26 books (13 authored, 13 edited or co-edited), You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation 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; You Were Always Mom's Favorite!, about sisters, and You're Wearing THAT?, about mothers and grown daughters, were also N

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An Interview with Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, has just published her 13th book, and first memoir, Finding My Father: His Century-long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow. We recently discussed the new work.

You’ve written many books (including You Just Don’t Understand, You’re Wearing THAT?, You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!, and You’re the Only One I Can Tell) about how people express/hide themselves through language. How did the commercial success of those books enhance or detract from your position in academia?

My colleagues at Georgetown and in my discipline have been uniformly supportive of me and my academic, as well as my general-audience, writing. I feel I should add “kunnahurra,” which is how my mother pronounced the Yiddish expression one says to avoid jinxing good fortune.

How did writing this book about the father you adored affect you?

My father was the parent I felt an affinity for, the one I thought understood me.