Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… 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 expression of the social, … Eugene F. Miller (ed.), (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987), p. 534. Conversation had early been associated with women, not just because it embodied their 'natural aversion to coarseness', and their refined and delicate manners, but … is the Shorter, Pleasanter and more Effectual method of arriving at the summit of genteel behaviour‘. 9 Even though women’s conversation appears to have been promoted primarily to improve men’s, it created a significant space for women’s …
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