# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-tannen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:16:05.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-tannen"
name: "Deborah Tannen"
slug: "deborah-tannen"
description: "Deborah Frances Tannen 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."
tagline: "American sociolinguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deborah_Tannen_at_the_Kennedy_Center_-_cropped_and_black_and_white.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Deborah Tannen"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump