Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… role conversation played in developing not just knowledge but the mind and critical judgement. As late eighteeth-century woman of letters Hester Chapone observed, 'it is almost impossible that an evening should pass in mutual endeavours to … in company, citing their ‘boundless intemperance of tongue’. 15 Instead, an ‘illuminated countenance’ would show that a woman understands what a man is saying almost as 'unequivocally as language would do'. 16 Women’s conversation and …
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