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[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.

Source: The Argument Culture; 27 Mar 1998 interview with Jim Lehrer on The NewsHour.
-- Deborah Tannen, (Jun 7 1951-____), US sociolinguist, writer; 0

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