I worked for the linguistics professor and department chair at my undergraduate institution, so I heard a fair bit about Deborah Tannen. She also did her doctoral work with Tannen, which meant I and my fellow English majors heard a LOT about Tannen. J That’s how these things tend to go in academia. She’s done a lot for the subfield of sociolinguistics, and I’ve long wanted to read her work firsthand for myself. I bought You Just Don’t Understand! from a thrift store years ago […]