Conversation : What to Say and How to Say It.
Title:
Conversation : What to Say and How to Say It.
Author:
Conklin, Mary Greer.
ISBN:
9781775567981
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (111 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I What Conversation is and What it is Not -- Chapter II Discussion Versus Controversy -- Chapter III Gossip -- Chapter IV What Should Guests Talk About at Dinner? -- Chapter V Talk of Host and Hostess at Dinner -- Chapter VI Interruption in Conversation -- Chapter VII Power of Fitness, Tact, and Nicety in Business Words -- Chapter VIII Conclusion -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
The aim and design of conversation is, therefore, pleasure. This agreed, we can determine its elements. Conversation, above all, is dialog, not monolog. It is a partnership, not an individual affair. It is listening as well as talking. Monopolizing tyrants of society who will allow no dog to bark in their presence are not conversationalists; they are lecturers. There are plenty of people who, as Mr. Benson says, "possess every qualification for conversing except the power to...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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