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About Deborah Tannen
American author and linguist
Deborah Tannen is an American author and linguist, associated with Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is best known for You Just Don't Understand, and has 105 quotes on the site. She has also served as a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. Her work and academic roles place her in the study of language and communication, especially the ways people understand one another.
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- “My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics…”Deborah Tannen
- “If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.”Deborah Tannen
- “New Yorkers seem to think the best thing two people can do is talk.”Deborah Tannen
- “חיבור ותחרות גם יחד הם כוחות המניעים את כל מערכות היחסים באשר הן; אבל הם עזים וגלויים במיוחד בין אחיות.”Deborah Tannen
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