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The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue
Written by Deborah Tannen
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Deborah Tannen
Deborah Frances Tannen is an author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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Reviews for The Argument Culture
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ms. Tannen's writing style is engaging, her anecdotes were interesting and her conclusions seemed plausible... at first, anyway. Unfortunately, her reasoning (particularly her over-generalizations) drove me bonkers.