Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen Quotes
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.
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| Birth: | 7th June, 1945 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Professor |
About
Deborah Frances Tannen is an American author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. She earned B.A. degree in English Literature. She went on to earn a Masters in English Literature at Wayne State University. Later, she continued her academic studies at UC Berkeley, earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics. She has written and edited many books including Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends; Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse; Gender and Discourse; and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis.
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