TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Stephen
TI  - Conversation: a history of a declining art 
SN  - 9780300123654 (pbk.) :
AV  - P95.45  .M54 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Haven, CT, London, UK
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Conversation anaylsis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Conversations and its discontents -- Ancient conversation: from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- Three factors affecting conversation: religion, commerce, women -- The age of conversation: eighteenth-century Britain -- Samuel Johnson: a conversational triumph; lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation lost -- Conversation in decline: from raillery to reverie -- Conversation in America: from Benjamin Franklin to Dale Carnegie -- Modern enemies of conversation: from countercultural theorists to "White Negroes" -- The ways we don't converse now -- The end of conversation?
ER  -