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Title: Academic Mumble Jumble
Review: This is not a book for the general public. In fact, it is not a book at all. It is a collection of papers written by Deborah Tannen and her students, most of which have not been published in peer-reviewed journals.If you have done a few years of graduate-school level study, you may be able to slug through some of these papers. The information density is low, of course, as is typical in the "academic writing frame", and the language dry. I personally find "Chapter" 2 definitely worth reading, and "Chapter" 1 & 6 marginally so, but the book overall is worth neither the price nor the pain.
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