Conversation
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"By the sixth century B.C., this development had led to the partial dissolution of the old ways of life, and even to a series of political revolutions and reactions. And it had led not only to attempts to retain and to arrest tribalism by force, as in Sparta, but also to that great spiritual revolution, the invention of critical discussion, and in consequence of thought that was free from magical obsessions. At the same time we find the first symptoms of a new uneasiness. The strain of civilization was beginning to be felt."--The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) by Karl Popper A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation --Jonathan Swift |
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Conversation is a form of interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people who are following rules of etiquette. It is polite give and take of subjects thought of by people talking with each other for company.
Conversation analysis is a branch of sociology which studies the structure and organization of human interaction, with a more specific focus on conversational interaction.
See also
- A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (book)
- Aizuchi
- Awkward silence
- Bohm Dialogue
- Compulsive talking
- Conversation Theory
- Conversational narcissism
- "Conversation" Sharp MP Doyen of the Georgian period conversationalists.
- Dialogue
- 'King of Clubs' - famous Whig conversation club
- Online chat
- Small talk
- Speech (public address)
- The Conversation