Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… and probably John Penn), c.1744, Victoria and Albert Museum. Image Midnight Modern Conversation (1733), by William Hogarth Image Angellis, Peter, 'Conversation Piece', Tate, T00789, c. 1715-20. Résumé Conversation was a polysemic practice … conversation also aimed to develop not just knowledge but the mind and critical faculties. Conversations that were part of the fabric of social and familial exchanges were the inspiration for instructional dialogic texts called ‘Familiar … le plus difficile , c’est […] de bien penser sur le sujet qui se presente […] et de sçavoir exprimer chaque chose à part du meilleur ton , et de l’air le plus agréable. 1 1 . Chevalier de Méré, ‘De la Conversation’, in Œuvres, ed. Charles …
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