Deborah Tannen Audio & Video

It's about how our culture is obsessed with turning every allegation into a headline, every headline into a conflict, and every conflict into a scandal.

Professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking research into the fundamental differences between the ways in which the sexes communicate using language forms the basis for this fascinating series of lectures.

The following series of lectures draws on linguistics, or the scientific study of language, to show the many ways in which language has a profound effect upon human relationships.

Ms. Tannen discussed her book, The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue, and responded to audience telephone calls, faxes and electronic mail.

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and...

You say something at a meeting and it is ignored; then when someone else says the same thing, everyone embraces it as a marvelous idea. You devote yourself to a project, but don't get credit for the results.

In That's Not What I Meant!, Dr. Tannen helps you recognize your own conversational style and understand the styles of others.

In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women.

As sociolinguistics expert Dr. Tannen reveals, no one is to blame for the familiar feeling among men and women that members of the opposite sex just don't understand them...

New York Times best-selling author Deborah Tannen is renowned for illuminating the way we communicate - and revolutionizing relationships in the process. What she did for women and men in You Just Don't Understand, and mothers and daughters in You're Wearing THAT?...