Deborah Tannen is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, and mostrecently, Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace: Language, Sex, and Power.

Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity ... She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today.

Deborah Tannen is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, and mostrecently, Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace: Language, Sex, and Power.

Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity ... She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today.

Deborah Tannen is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, and mostrecently, Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace: Language, Sex, and Power.

Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity ... She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today.