Why is not conversation the soul of democracy?
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2001.14.3096Keywords:
Dialogue, Public Sphere, ArgumentationAbstract
Inspired by the writings of John Dewey, among others, communication studies have taken face-to-face conversation to be at the heart of democratic life. But face-to-face conversation has been much more honored in aristocracies than in democracies; and there are, in fact, two distinctive and contrasting ideals of conversation: the social conversation and the problem-solving conversation.
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