The art of public speaking is not a gift from heaven, but rather an accomplishment achieved through practice and hard work. You too can achieve this level of co

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing convers

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