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The Art of Conversation
The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years. Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving...
The Art of Conversation
With this pioneering work, Peter Burke provides the first comprehensive social history of language in early modern Europe. Utilizing a method that will interest all social and cultural historians, he focuses on the dynamic roles of class distinction, ethnic and religious difference,...
The Art of Conversation
Written originally as conference or seminar papers, these essays are deliberately exploratory rather than definitive, an attempt to reconnoiter terrain which the next generation may well cultivate more intensively. The problem of incorporating language into social and cultural...
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