The art of conversation / Peter Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Peter, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation.

Oral communication--Europe--History.

Oral communication.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 178 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1993.

Summary:

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 history has afforded the author the opportunity to revise or develop the argument in some places, to add more examples, and to take account of recent work in both history and linguistics, as well as eliminating repetitions and making the system of references uniform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-173) and index.

ISBN:

0801429560

0801481678

OCLC:

28065591