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14-September-2008 12:50:29 - Conversation This article may require cleanup to meet 's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. October 2007 For other uses, see Conversation disambiguation. Banter redirects here, for the Radio 4 panel show see Banter radio show A conversation is communication by two or more people, or by one's self. Conversations are the ideal form of communication in some respects, since they allow people with different views of a topic to learn from each other. A speech, on the other hand, is an oral presentation by one person directed at a group. Those engaging in conversation naturally relate the other speaker's statements to themselves, and insert themselves or some degree of relation to themselves, ranging from the replier's opinions or points to actual stories about themselves into their replies. For a successful conversation, the partners must achieve a workable balance of contributions. A successful conversation includes mutually interesting connections between the speakers or things that the speakers know. For this to happen, those engaging in conversation must find a topic on which they both can relate to in some sense. Conversation analysis is a branch of sociology which studies the structure and organization of human interaction, with a more specific focus on conversational interaction. Contents 1 Types of conversation 2 Men and women 3 Literature on conversation 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Types of conversation Banter or O-shaberi O-Shabs in Japanese, or Plagerij in Dutch, is non-serious conversation usually between friends, which may rely on humour at the expense of those taking part or in-jokes. Banter is particularly difficult for those on the autism spectrum, or those with semantic pragmatic disorder. An example of banter is the use of Mum jokes between friends. This typifies the essence of banter; on the face of it, offensive, but because of the existing friendship bond between participants, it is in fact humorous, almost because of the irony of the situation. On-screen couples can be said to have good banter if their innate understanding of each other's personality leads to a mutual respect for each other's barbs. Modern day examples are Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, and Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Television programs described as talk shows, such as William F. Buckley's Firing Line or the Dick Cavett Show, can be considered as exercises in conversation. In entertainment talk shows, however, the conversation is often pre-scripted. Broadly speaking, conversation, which is not difficult for most individuals, can be divided into four categories according to its major content: conversations about ideas, conversations about concrete objects and facts, conversations about other people usually absent and conversations about me. Each of these types of conversation has its own cluster of purposes and expectations attached, and each serves a different social purpose. Conversation about ideas serves to extend understanding and awareness, conversation about concrete objects and facts primarily serves to consolidate a group world view, conversation about others not present gossip serves to boost self esteem, and conversation about me is a means of attracting attention from others. In the real world no conversation falls exclusively into one category. Nevertheless the proportional distribution of any given conversation between the categories can offer useful psychological insights into the mind set of the participants. Men and women A study completed in July 2007 by Matthias Mehl of the University of Arizona shows that contrary to popular belief, there is little difference in the number of words used by men and women in conversation1. The study showed that on average each of the sexes uses about 16,000 words per day. Literature on conversation Authors who have written extensively on conversation and attempted to analyze its nature include: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, and Ron McMillan have written two New York Times bestselling books on conversation. The first one, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, McGraw-Hill, 2002, teaches skills for handling disagreement and high-stakes issues at work and at home. The second book, Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior, McGraw-Hill, 2005, teaches important skills for dealing with accountability issues. Charles Blattberg has written two books defending an approach to politics that emphasizes conversation, in contrast to negotiation, as the preferred means of resolving conflict. His From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-829688-6, is a work of political philosophy; and his Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7735-2596-3, applies that philosophy to the Canadian case. Paul Drew John Heritage - Talk at Work, a study of how conversation changes in social and workplace situations. Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death Conversation is not the book's specific focus, but discourse in general gets good treatment here Deborah Tannen - The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, Gender and Discourse, I Only Say This Because I Love You, Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work, That's Not What I Meant!, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation See also Bohm Dialogue Chat Conversation Theory Dialogue Speech public address References ^ 1 Roxanne Khamsi, NewScientist.com news service 6 July 2007: Men - the other talkative sex.I thank them for letting them me do this research. Retrieved 8 July 2007. Original article Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men? Mehl et al., Science 6 July 2007: 82 DOI: 10.1126/science.1139940. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: People in conversation Advice on initiating conversations and links to conversational organizations. Article on developing basic communication skills Conversation Café, devoted to creating a culture of conversation. Empathic listening skills How to listen so others will feel heard, or listening first aid University of California. Download a one hour seminar on empathic listening and attending skills. Lifehack howto on Small Talk Table Topics Using question cards to stimulate conversation The art of conversation, Economist, 19 December 2006 Conversation techniques Methods and ideas to initiate and sustain a conversation Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Conversation Categories: Oral communicationHidden categories: Cleanup from October 2007 | All pages needing cleanup Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Deutsch Español 日本語 í•œêµì–´ Ripoarisch Nederlands SlovenÄ?ina ייִדיש This page was last modified on 11 September 2008, at 02:51
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