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Deborah Tannen's Books
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I Only Say This Because I Love YouWhy does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking to family members is so...Read More -
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That's Not What I MeantYou know the feeling: You thought you said exactly what you wanted to, but somehow a different message comes across. You end up feeling...Read More
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You Just Don't UnderstandDeborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the...Read More
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PR inside, March 9, 2010
...- Women Mean Business goes Head Over Heels with world famous linguist and communication expert, Deborah Tannen on March 16, 2010 Phoenix, AZ (PR-Inside) March 9, 2010 -- Deborah Tannen, Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and author of...
Sri Lanka Island, February 14, 2010
...exploring new and constructive lines on issues that end up with hardening our ‘adversarial frame of mind’ (see, Deborah, Tannen, 1998, The Argument Culture, Virago Press, London). Padmasiri de Silva (formerly, Professor & Head, Philosophy &...
St. Petersburg Times, January 23, 2010
...personal, conversational tone. Menaker draws on a wide array of sources ? from Socrates to Samuel Johnson to Deborah Tannen ? to explain how conversation has evolved and how it works ? or doesn't. In keeping with his thesis that "it is you and I and...
Seattle Times, January 18, 2010
...a personal, conversational tone. Menaker draws on a wide array of sources from Socrates to Samuel Johnson to Deborah Tannen to explain how conversation has evolved and how it works or doesn't. In keeping with his thesis that 'it is you and I and other...
Seattle Times, January 17, 2010
...a personal, conversational tone. Menaker draws on a wide array of sources from Socrates to Samuel Johnson to Deborah Tannen to explain how conversation has evolved and how it works ? or doesn't. In keeping with his thesis that "it is you and I and other...
Interest!ALERT, December 29, 2009
...Newsweek contributing editor, & TV commentator, Eleanor Clift -- You Just Don't Understand & Talking 9-5 author Deborah Tannen -- Former CNN Business anchor Myron Kandel -- African Methodist Episcopal bishops Vashti McKenzie & Bill Deveaux -- MIT...
Boston Globe, December 18, 2009
...be the safer choice. But female has its own PR problems. Female connotes a biological category, the linguist Deborah Tannen told columnist William Safire in 2007. I avoid female [as an adjective] in my own writing because it feels disrespectful, as if Im...
Huffington Post, December 11, 2009
...very important.) Of course, life isn't always flowers and piece of cake. As Charles Simic writes (and Deborah Tannen echos in "For Argument's Sake"): "There are moments in life when true invective is called for, when it becomes an absolute necessity, out...
McAlester News-Capital, November 1, 2009
...Bernankes War on the Great Panic, David WesselYou Were Always Moms Favorite! Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives, Deborah Tannen This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti, Victoria Gotti The Good Soldiers, David Finkel The Case...
NWI Times, October 12, 2009
...The idea of sisterhood is something of an ideal, says Deborah Tannen, author of 'You Were Always Mom's Favorite! Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives ' (Random House 2009, $26). 'It means that there is someone always on your side, always...
Oprah.com, October 1, 2009
...of three sisters. I'm sure that had something to do with your interest in writing this book. Deborah Tannen: Yes, and in some ways the book just blew out of the one before, because I had done the previous book You're Wearing THAT?, which is about mothers...
Canada.com, September 23, 2009
...do so until you're both sitting smart and pretty in your rocking chairs, a new book suggests. Deborah Tannen interviewed more than 100 women for her new book, You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives. Whether they...
Chicago Sun-Times, September 14, 2009
...Corner of Bitter and Sweet, 7 p.m. at Borders, 1500 16th St., Oak Brook. OCT. 13 ? Deborah Tannen signs You Were Always Mom?s Favorite!, 7 p.m. at the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm St., Winnetka. OCT. 15 ? Alton Brown signs Good Eats...
WXEL, September 8, 2009
...borrows your clothes. She knows your secrets. She drives you crazy. You can't live without her. Linguist Deborah Tannen interviewed 100 women (including her own big sisters) for her new book, You Were Always Mom's Favorite. by Susan Stamberg Linguist...
Chicago Sun-Times, August 31, 2009
...the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, 7 p.m. at Borders, 1500 16th St., Oak Brook. OCT. 13 Deborah Tannen signs You Were Always Mom's Favorite!, 7 p.m. at the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm St., Winnetka. OCT. 15 Alton Brown signs Good Eats: The...
Georgetown University, August 30, 2009
...domestic violence, vigilantes at the U.S. borders and the criminalization of immigration policy, among other topics. TANNEN Deborah Tannen, university professor of linguistics, continues her research into family communication with the upcoming You Were...
The Detroit Free Press, May 3, 2009
...book without employing the terms used in the blurbs: 'remarkable ... one emotional ride' (Bob Woodward); 'riveting ... moving ... enlightening' (Deborah Tannen); 'a memoir that pushes the journalistic envelope ... fascinating' (Helen Epstein); 'a...
Cervantes, December 20, 2009
...be the safer choice. But female has its own PR problems. “Female connotes a biological category,” the linguist Deborah Tannen told columnist William Safire in 2007. “I avoid female [as an adjective] in my own writing because it feels disrespectful,...
RESTY S. ODON, November 14, 2009
...m optimistic about this work by another black literary icon. For my pop psychology fix, I got another Deborah Tannen title: That’s not What I Meant!, which I expect to enjoy because I’m very much interested in how people miscommunicate with...
FT's Books, October 22, 2009
...Don’t Understand , about women-men conversations, I was looking forward to reading You Were Always Mom’s Favorite! , Deborah Tannen’s latest project about sister-talk. And I was thoroughly disappointed , because of silly pronouncements such as this...
The Book Publicity Blog, September 11, 2009
...Matthew Crawford Diane Rehm End of Overeating, The David Kessler Diane Rehm You Were Always Mom’s Favorite Deborah Tannen Diane Rehm Half the Sky Nicholas Kristof Diane Rehm Hope for Animals and Their World Jane Gooddall ...
Book bandit on the run, September 8, 2009
...NPR aired and interview this morning with author Deborah Tannen who recently wrote the book "You Were Always Mom's Favorite" about the complicated relationships between sisters. I have two sisters (I'm in the middle) and I really...
Read Street, August 21, 2009
... We hope you enjoy "In Praise of Doubt." Next week, you could be the proud owner of Deborah Tannen's "You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout their Lives." Tannen interviewed hundreds of women while researching the complex...
Wikiversity - Recent changes [en], June 2, 2009
...does this language belong to? by Avital Feuer Talking voices. Repetition, dialouge and imagery in conversational discourse by Deborah Tannen Reading log Feinberg, Feuer, Tannen Reading log 3: Att platsa i en skola för alla by Eva Hjörne and Roger...
Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae, April 26, 2009
...objective journalism,” Pilon said. He said The Times should have dropped all adjectives in this case. I asked Deborah Tannen , an author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, what she thought of a suggestion like Pilon’s. “The...
Barack Obama | positively Barack, April 24, 2009
...you.” Misbehavior is peer-corrected with the admonition, “Barack’s in the White House,” which translates, “Show some respect.” Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, said it was “just really stunning” that kids...
Barack Obama | positively Barack, April 24, 2009
...you.” Misbehavior is peer-corrected with the admonition, “Barack’s in the White House,” which translates, “Show some respect.” Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, said it was “just really stunning” that kids...
