Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… Résumé Conversation was a polysemic practice of sociability in leisured and learned classes. Ideally, it cultivated politeness, pleasure, ease and reciprocity. At the same time, its plural meanings also accommodated tensions within the … Concepts > Social interaction Concepts > Language & Speech Mots-clés Children Controversy Gentleman Masculinity Politeness Science Women ‘Conversation’, as developed in seventeenth-century France, was considered the consummate … so that conversation could encompass controversy and collision 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 …
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