Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University, and is the recipient of five honorary doctorates. Among her nineteen books are Talking voices: Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse (Cambridge University Press) and Conversational style: Analyzing talk among friends (Ablex). She has written on such topics as spoken and written language, doctor-patient communication, cross-cultural communication, modern Greek discourse, the poetics of everyday conversation, the relationship between conversational and literary discourse, gender and language, workplace interaction, agonism in public discourse, and family interaction. She has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Her most recent grant is from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for a project entitled "Mothers and fathers at work and at home: Creating parental identities through talk."
Key Words:
Spoken and written language, doctor-patient communication, cross-cultural
communication, modern Greek discourse, the poetics of everyday conversation,
the relationship between conversational and literary discourse, gender and
language, workplace interaction, agonism in public discourse, and family
interaction, analyzing conversation, discourse analysis, framing, power and
solidarity.
