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59
Citations
28934
World Ranking
1517
National Ranking
727

Overview

Deborah Tannen is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences, with notable contributions to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Gender Studies, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their recent academic papers include:

  • "Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics," 2023, published in Discourse Studies
  • "Three decades in the field of gender and language: a personal perspective," 2021, published in Gender and Language
  • "Frontmatter," 2022, published in Text and Talk

Frequent co-authors working with Deborah Tannen encompass the following researchers:

  • Cynthia Gordon
  • Srikant Sarangi
  • Jean Pietrowicz
  • Aarón V. Cicourel
  • Bohumil Palek

The primary publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Discourse Studies
  • Gender and Language
  • Text and Talk

Core research topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Gender Studies in Language
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

The scientist's investigations focus on how language functions across various social contexts, with attention to interactional dynamics, gender influences in language, and discourse analysis frameworks. Their scholarship integrates theoretical and applied approaches to understanding language variation, communication strategies, and multilingual policies.

Best Publications

  • You just don't understand : women and men in conversation

    Deborah Tannen

  • Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse

    Deborah Tannen

  • The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

    Deborah Schiffrin;Deborah Tannen;Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton

  • Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

    Deborah Tannen

  • Gender and discourse

    Deborah Tannen

  • You Just Don't Understand

    Deborah Tannen;巽 信岡;俊之 高垣

  • Framing in Discourse

    Deborah Tannen

  • Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview

    Deborah Tannen;Cynthia Wallat

  • Spoken and written language : exploring orality and literacy

    Deborah Tannen

  • Analyzing discourse : text and talk

    Deborah Tannen

  • Gender and conversational interaction

    Deborah Tannen

  • Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Narratives.

    Deborah Tannen

  • Repetition in Conversation: Toward a Poetics of Talk

    Deborah Tannen

  • Perspectives on Silence

    Deborah Tannen;Muriel Saville-Troike

  • The argument culture : moving from debate to dialogue

    Deborah Tannen

  • The Relation Between Written and Spoken Language

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  • Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work.

    Deborah Tannen

  • Talking voices: Contents

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  • That's Not What I Meant!

    Deborah Tannen

  • Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse

    Deborah Tannen

  • The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why.

    Deborah Tannen

  • Handbook of Discourse Analysis

    Deborah Tannen;Heidi E. Hamilton;Deborah Schiffrin

  • Gender and Conversational Interaction

    Zdenek Salzmann;Deborah Tannen

  • Linguistics in context : connecting observation and understanding

    Deborah Tannen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivana Marková
Ivana Marková University of Stirling
William B. Gudykunst
William B. Gudykunst California State University, Fullerton
Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk Pompeu Fabra University
Marvin Harris
Marvin Harris University of Florida
Anne Haas Dyson
Anne Haas Dyson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William Grabe
William Grabe Northern Arizona University
Rom Harré
Rom Harré Georgetown University

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