LEADER 03578nam 22005535 450 001 9910452350003321 005 20210302194909.0 010 $a1-281-72237-5 010 $a9786611722371 010 $a0-300-13018-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300130188 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472142 035 $a(EBL)3420089 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000130261 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130261 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080644 035 $a(PQKB)11001492 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420089 035 $a(DE-B1597)485375 035 $a(OCoLC)1024008589 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300130188 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472142 100 $a20200424h20082008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConversation $eA History of a Declining Art /$fStephen Miller 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-11030-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tI. Conversation and Its Discontents --$tII. Ancient Conversation: From the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium --$tIII. Three Factors Affecting Conversation: Religion, Commerce,Women --$tIV. The Age of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Britain --$tV. Samuel Johnson: A Conversational Triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation Lost --$tVI. Conversation in Decline: From Raillery to Reverie --$tVII. Conversation in America: From Benjamin Franklin to Dale Carnegie --$tVIII. Modern Enemies of Conversation: From Countercultural Theorists to "White Negroes" --$tIX. The Ways We Don't Converse Now --$tX. The End of Conversation? --$tBibliographical Essay --$tIndex 330 $aEssayist 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 G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit 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. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation. 606 $aConversation analysis 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConversation analysis. 676 $a302.3/46 700 $aMiller$b Stephen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0153552 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452350003321 996 $aConversation$92469891 997 $aUNINA