Deborah Tannen

Linguist and author Deborah Tannen is our guest. Her new book is “I Only Say This Because I love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives.” Tannen is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend. Laura Knoy talks with Tannen about improving communication in families. This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.