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The Spectator, No. 11 (13 March 1711) [ Practices ]
… and wake on Occasions to consult his Safety. In this manner did the Lovers pass away their Time, till they had learn'd a Language of their own, in which the Voyager communicated to his Mistress, how happy he should be to have her in his …
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… easy access to all levels of meanings and could discuss them, female readers, who were rarely literate in the classical languages, constituted a separate community of readers who could socialise with the main group only up to a certain … were commercial ventures offering guidance about how to interact harmoniously with others. They spread the idea that the language of social harmony and virtue was intimately related to that of credit and exchange. Defining sociability as a …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
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… by Walter J. Ong elicited new forms of sociability, which poets modelled in order to experiment new forms of language. Satire patterns were real communicative solutions, while commonplaces contributed to the sedimentation of … was supposed to generate his own metrically fitted phrases. Commonplace thought might be tolerated, but not commonplace language. 12 12 . Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word (London-New York: Routledge, 2002), …
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