| Deborah Tannen  Born: 7-Jun-1951
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Linguist
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: You Just Don't Understand Sociolinguist, focusing on the role played by gender in conversation. Husband: (divorced once)
Husband: (married)
High School: Hunter College High School, New York, NY (1962, at age eleven)
University: BA English Literature, Harpur College (1966)
University: MA English Literature, Wayne State University (1970)
University: MA Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley (1976)
University: PhD Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley (1979)
Professor: Linguistics, Georgetown University (1979-)
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
EMILY's List
Friends of Hillary
Hillary Clinton for President
Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee
John Kerry for President
MoveOn.org
New Leadership for America PAC
Obama for America
People for the American Way
Official Website:
http://www.georgetown.edu/tannen/
Author of books:
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends (1984, nonfiction)
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships (1986, nonfiction)
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (1989, nonfiction)
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (1990)
Gender and Discourse (1994, nonfiction)
Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work (1995, nonfiction)
The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words (1999, nonfiction)
I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults (2002, nonfiction)
Wrote plays:
An Act of Devotion (1994)
Sisters (1995)
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