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I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Bossy Heard How How Many Times Judgmental Many Older Sisters Tell Times Were You Younger

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There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Amazement Babies Born Excitement First Impact More Subsequent

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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Assume Change Depending Gesture Going Idiom Kind Normal Our Own People Politeness Say Something Speaking Speech Talking Tend Think Truth Truth Is Try Ways Who You I Think

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When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothers get the feeling that talking to their daughters can be like walking on eggshells: they have to watch every word.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Anger Annoyance Daughters Even Every Feeling Get Innocent Like Mothers React Remarks Seemingly Smallest Talking Walking Watch Word

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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Conversations Each Life Lived Person Series

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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

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Topics: How How Much Language Look Much Power Realize Tend Through

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Now I am married to a man who is a partner and friend. We come from similar backgrounds and share values and interests. It is a continual source of pleasure to talk to him.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Am Backgrounds Come Friend Him Interests Man Married Now Partner Pleasure Share Similar Source Talk Values Who I Am

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The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Come Culture Given Meanings People Practice Those Use Uses Way Words

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'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Right Right And Wrong Uses Words Wrong

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I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Adjustment Believed Conversational Conversations Get How Long Make Relationships Styles Understand Want Work You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: June 7th, 1945

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