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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 ...
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation is a 1990 non-fiction book on language and gender by Deborah Tannen, a professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. It draws partly on academic research by Tannen and others, but was regarded by academics with some controversy upon its release.
That's Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships is Deborah Tannen's first book presenting, for a general audience, her linguistic approach to explaining how ways of speaking affect relationships.
The reason for the popularity of Tannen's book You Just Don't Understand, and the resultant popularization of difference theory, [7] [8] is generally attributed to the style of Tannen's work, in which she adopts a neutral position on differences in genderlect by making no value-judgements about use of language by either gender. Talbot comments ...
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992 [1]) is a book written by American author and relationship counselor John Gray.The book states that most common relationship problems between men and women are a result of fundamental psychological differences between the sexes, which the author exemplifies by means of its eponymous metaphor: that men and women are from distinct planets—men from ...
In addition, Deborah Tannen, the theorist that created Genderlect Theory, criticizes feminist scholars like Kramarae for assuming that men are trying to control women. [81] Tannen acknowledges that differences in male and female communication styles sometimes lead to imbalances of power.
Lilika Nakos (Greek: Λιλίκα Νάκου; February 24, 1904 – May 25, 1989), sometimes written Lilika Nakou, was a pioneering Greek journalist and writer.. She has been described as one of the "grandes dames of modern Greek literature."
Biff Tannen, a character in the Back to the Future trilogy; Val Tannen (born 1953), Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania; Charles Tannen (1915–1980), American actor; Deborah Tannen (born 1945), American academic and professor of linguistics; Julius Tannen (1880–1965), comedian and father of Charles and William Tannen