Deborah Tannen

16.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
103 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Deborah Tannen is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Tannen has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Language and Linguistics, 20 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 13 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Deborah Tannen's work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (29 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (18 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (13 papers). Deborah Tannen is often cited by papers focused on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (29 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (18 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (13 papers). Deborah Tannen collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. Deborah Tannen's co-authors include Barrie Thorne, Cynthia Wallat, John H. McDowell, Wallace Chafe, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, James E. Alatis, Teun A. van Dijk, Cynthia Gordon, Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Shari Kendall and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Tannen

94 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

You just don't understand : women and men in conversation 1981 2026 1996 2011 1992 1982 1981 1994 1994 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. You just don't understand : women and men in conversation
    1992 1.7k citations Deborah Tannen Philosophy and Rhetoric profile →
  2. Analyzing discourse : text and talk
    1982 751 citations Deborah Tannen DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) profile →
  3. Therapeutic discourse: Psychotherapy as conversation. By William Labov and David Fanshel. New York: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. x, 392. $17.75.
    1981 659 citations Deborah Tannen Language profile →
  4. Gender and discourse
    1994 560 citations Deborah Tannen Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →
  5. Gender and Conversational Interaction.
    1994 392 citations Deborah Tannen et al. profile →
  6. Framing in Discourse
    1993 378 citations Deborah Tannen profile →

Peers

Deborah Tannen
Derek Edwards United Kingdom
Jonathan Potter United Kingdom
Elinor Ochs United States
Günther Kress United Kingdom
John J. Gumperz United States
David Crystal United Kingdom
Dell Hymes United States
M. M. Bakhtin Colombia
Michael Holquist United States
Caryl Emerson United States
Derek Edwards United Kingdom
Deborah Tannen
Citations per year, relative to Deborah Tannen Deborah Tannen (= 1×) peers Derek Edwards

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Tannen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tannen, Deborah. (2015). “We’ve never been close, we’re very different”: three narrative types in sister discourse. International Journal “Speech Genres”. 12(2). 48–62. 3 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (2011). That's not what I meant! : how conversational style makes or breaks relationships. 42 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah, et al.. (2004). Laß uns richtig streiten : warum Frauen immer widersprechen und Männer nur sich selbst zuhören. 1 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah & James E. Alatis. (2003). Linguistics, language, and the real world : discourse and beyond. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 28 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (2002). I only say this because I love you : talking to your parents, partner, sibs, and kids when you're all adults. 8 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (2001). Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men at work. 51 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (1998). The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 121 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah, et al.. (1997). Different games, different rules : why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (1995). Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men in the workplace : language, sex and power. 74 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (1995). The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why.. Harvard business review. 73(5). 120 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (1992). You just don't understand : women and men in conversation. Philosophy and Rhetoric. 26(1). 1739 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tannen, Deborah. (1987). Repetition in Conversation: Toward a Poetics of Talk. Language. 63(3). 574–605. 174 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah, et al.. (1987). That is not what I mean. 1 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah & James E. Alatis. (1986). Languages and linguistics : the interdependence of theory, data, and application. Georgetown University Press eBooks. 52 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (1982). Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Narratives. Language. 58(1). 1–21. 202 indexed citations
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Tannen, Deborah. (1982). Analyzing discourse : text and talk. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 751 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tannen, Deborah. (1981). Therapeutic discourse: Psychotherapy as conversation. By William Labov and David Fanshel. New York: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. x, 392. $17.75.. Language. 57(2). 481–486. 659 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tannen, Deborah. (1979). Processes and Consequences of Conversational Style. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 13 indexed citations

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