Deborah Tannen: ...about women's friendships

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Friendship is the topic as we talk with Deborah Tannen, who has spent her career studying the language of everyday conversation. She is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of many books, including, "You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships". Her website is http://www.deborahtannen.com/

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0:00.0	Michael Daxon, give me one chance, one chance to dance.
0:07.8	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:12.2	I'm Jan Black.
0:13.2	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.7	Are women's friendships different than men's?
0:17.7	Do women friends talk more and about more personal things than men do? How do you define
0:22.5	a close friend? Those are among the questions we're exploring right now with our guest, Deborah
0:27.2	Tannen, who spent her career studying the language of everyday conversation. Deborah is a
0:32.9	professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of many books, the latest of which is called
0:38.7	You're the Only One I Can Tell Inside the Language of Women's Friendships.
0:44.1	Deborah, thank you so much for joining us today. How did you decide on the title of your book,
0:48.7	you're the only one I can tell? It typifies close relationships for many women.
0:56.9	Your best friend is the one you tell everything to women that I interviewed, and I should say I interviewed 80 girls and women ranging in age from 9 to 97.
1:09.5	And I often heard comments like, if she's a close friend, I tell her
1:15.2	everything I think and everything I feel. Or she knows things about me. Nobody else knows. So this
1:22.9	feeling that a friend is someone you can tell things to you is a big part of friendship for many women.
1:29.8	And I think there's a lot of pressure on girls at an early age to have a best friend.
1:35.2	There's kind of societal pressure and peer pressure to, oh, you need to have a best friend.
1:41.0	Yeah, it's so true.
1:42.8	And people who have studied girls and women as compared to boys,
1:47.7	and I wrote about this quite a bit in the book I wrote called You Just Don't Understand
1:52.2	conversations between women and men, that little girls, you find them whispering to each other
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