Thanks for the link, Bill
I haven't checked out Tannen's work lately
so I had no idea she had written explicitly about academic culture.
Just mentioned her name when you asked...
Eva
At 05.58 -0700 01-09-02, Bill Barowy scrobe:
>Eva, prodding me to be a better barn-raiser ;-) with such delicate subtlety,
>put me on to the following www article by Tannen, with the text reproduced
>below. It seems like something to share. Perhaps it can be a tool to unravel
>the rope of academic conditioning that pulls us toward contentious discussion.
>
>http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/chronicle033100.htm
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