Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… in the mixed social spaces of eighteenth-century sociability, and was an important spur to their education. Yet, while Addison claimed that mixed conversation was the ideal social state, it was thought by some to be dangerous because men … politeness was declining as a dominant cultural form, attitudes to conversation changed as well. Taciturnity, mocked by Addison early in the century, displaced the conversational fluency that had been the hallmark of the polite gentleman and …
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