Conversation and its margins -- Competitive conversation -- Confidence, confidings, and conning -- The uses and usages of muddle -- Conversational strategies in Dombey and son.
Summary:
"Explores the rhetoric of Dickens's characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies exemplify the conflicting forces of cooperation and violation that shape many conversations" -- Provided by publisher.
Series:
AMS studies in the nineteenth century, 0196-657X ; No. 40
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