Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… Image Angellis, Peter, 'Conversation Piece', Tate, T00789, c. 1715-20. Résumé Conversation was a polysemic practice of sociability in leisured and learned classes. Ideally, it cultivated politeness, pleasure, ease and reciprocity. At the … world, 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 … to improve men’s, it created a significant space for women’s voice 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 …
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