Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… phrases. Accusations of ‘cant’, i.e. of hypocrisy, flourished in a century that saw the development of new models of sociability relying on fashion and informality as well as of emotional preaching. Concepts > Language & Speech Mots-clés … to border on ‘cant’, yet dry and over-rational discourses were also frowned upon as going against the ideal of polite sociability which, according to Laurence Klein, ‘was associated with a revolt against rigidity, solemnity, … Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), more specifically p. 180-181. 8 . Laurence E. Klein, ‘Politeness and the Interpretation of the British Eighteenth Century’, The Historical Journal (vol. 45, n° 4, Dec. 2002), …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
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