Tannen's You Just Don't Understand set tongues wagging across the country in the early 1990s with its analysis of gender differences in speaking styles. Now the linguist and author of numerous other ...

Linguist Deborah Tannen interviewed more than 100 women for her new book on sister relationships, but as the youngest of three sisters, she was able to draw on plenty of experience of her own. "In ...

Jane Fonda once said, “It’s my women friends that keep starch in my spine and without them, I don’t know where I would be.” Women’s friendships are the focus of linguist and New York Times Bestselling ...

Deborah Tannen knows all about sisterhood, sister-speak, and the pitfalls and perplexities of sibling rivalry. She should. The youngest of three daughters, she is an expert on the nuances of ...

Deborah Tannen is the professor of linguistics who gave a scientific imprimatur to the "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" idea in the bestselling "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in ...

» EXPRESS: So, why sisters and not siblings generally? » TANNEN: I have two sisters, and because girls and women spend more time talking. That talk is about personal things, and that’s more likely to ...

You might think linguistics professor Deborah Tannen would lament the effects of social media on how we communicate. Instead, she sees how it fills an essential need for connection, and the ways we've ...

Thirty years ago, I became hooked on the work of socio-linguist Deborah Tannen after reading her smart, savvy, relationship-saving (yup, my husband read it, too) bestseller “You Just Don’t Understand: ...

Deborah Tannen’s new book explores the idea that platonic relationships can be as fulfilling—and as fraught—as their romantic counterparts. Abbi and Ilana are best friends—and also, very likely, the ...

Even Deborah Tannen is subject to the vicissitudes of everyday talk. Tannen, the Georgetown University linguist famous for explaining people's conversational habits, got into an argument with her ...

Jan. 27, 2006 — -- Best-selling author and relationship guru Deborah Tannen tackles one of the trickiest bonds of all -- the mother-daughter relationship in her latest book, "You're Wearing That?