عنوان

Conversation :a history of a declining art

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

Conversation :a history of a declining art

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Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of verbiage in his recent bestselling "On Bullshit", so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline. Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in "The Age of Conversation" and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney.

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He cites our technology )iPods, cell phones, and video games( and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgemental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New Haven

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Yale University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2006

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 336 p. ; 22 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]315[-328( and index

متن يادداشت

ISBN: 9780300123654

متن يادداشت

Stephen Miller

متن يادداشت

1

عنصر شناسه ای

، Conversation analysis

شماره رده

تاريخ

1491-

عنصر شناسه اي

Miller, Stephen

کد نقش

AU

عنصر شناسه اي

TI