Slip Of The Tongue By Katie Haegele Summary

Katie Haegele’s book, Slip of the Tongue: Talking About Language, is an interesting analysis on how people interact with language in their daily lives. It is told through a series of personal anecdotes, which allows the reader to get a much more personal sense for the things Haegele analyzes.
While overall the book was enjoyable and even enlightening at times, it lacked cohesiveness, both in terms of subject and chronologically. While this book is by no means written with an overarching plot, the lack of structure does leave the reader to seemingly stumble through Haegele’s life. Some chapters even seemed to lack any prevalence to Haegele’s life and to linguistics, such as the chapter on graffiti. It had no purpose other than to describe graffiti’s