Deborah Tannen

16.9k citations
103 papers · 8.6k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 39
Topics
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (29 papers)Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (18 papers)Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (13 papers)
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United StatesNorway

In The Last Decade

Deborah Tannen

94 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

You just don't understand: women and men in conversation19812026199620111992198219811994199450010001.5k

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Deborah Tannen
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  • Language and Linguistics 4.0k
  • Literature and Literary Theory 2.5k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.7k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.6k
  • Linguistics and Language 1.2k
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All Works

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That's not what I meant! : how conversational style makes or breaks relationships
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Laß uns richtig streiten : warum Frauen immer widersprechen und Männer nur sich selbst zuhören
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Linguistics, language, and the real world : discourse and beyond
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I only say this because I love you : talking to your parents, partner, sibs, and kids when you're all adults
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Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men at work
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The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words
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Different games, different rules : why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other
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Talking from 9 to 5 : women and men in the workplace : language, sex and power
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The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why.
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You just don't understand : women and men in conversationbreakdown →
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That is not what I mean
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Languages and linguistics : the interdependence of theory, data, and application
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Analyzing discourse : text and talkbreakdown →
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Therapeutic discourse: Psychotherapy as conversation. By William Labov and David Fanshel. New York: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. x, 392. $17.75.breakdown →
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Processes and Consequences of Conversational Style
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About Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Literature and Literary Theory, having authored 103 papers that have together received 8.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (29 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (18 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Language and Linguistics (4.0k citations), Linguistics and Language (1.2k citations) and Literature and Literary Theory (2.5k citations). Deborah Tannen has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Norway. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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