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A Linguist’s Intellectual Journey with Deborah Tannen - Conversations with History
Conversations with History (Audio)
English - December 04, 2017 21:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBSociety & Culture History politics health news interview entrepreneurship business comedy culture leadership entrepreneur Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Deborah Tannen, University Professor, Georgetown University, for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey. Topics covered include: formative experiences; the concept of conversational style; the skills and temperament desirable for work in linguistics; the examples of applying concepts in her work in understanding communication between men and women and in her work in understanding the erosion of civic discourse; and using linguistics to understand the 2016 Presidential campaign. Series: "Conversations with History" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33090]