Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… encompassing controversy and collision of mind as well as harmony. Defined as a means of individual improvement and self-fashioning, conversation also aimed to develop not just knowledge but the mind and critical faculties. Conversations … of mind as well as harmony. 4 Integral to sociability and politeness and a means of individual improvement and self-fashioning, conversation had to be instructive as well as entertaining. Contemporaries had much to say about the role … was increasingly contentious. At issue was the desire to produce an English conversation, echoing the ongoing desire to fashion an English politeness. Polite conversation could now be regarded as a ‘specious kind of Lies', an ‘enslavement to …
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