# Deborah Tannen (@deborah-tannen)

Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Best known as the author of You Just Don't Understand, she has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Deborah Tannen's public record._

## Topics

- [Evidence and Limits](/@deborah-tannen/evidence-and-limits.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Documented Work](/@deborah-tannen/documented-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Field and Context](/@deborah-tannen/field-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://id.loc.gov/search/?q=Deborah%20Tannen&q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames
- blog: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Deborah%20Tannen
- blog: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=Deborah%20Tannen

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "deborah-tannen", "question": "…"}`.