![]() ![]() This rational conversation is, in Burney, set up against and implicitly evaluated against kinds of speech that has become debased by commerce, distorting it into the strategic action described by Habermas. In Habermas, communicative reason examines dialogically three types of validity claims: of truth, moral rightness, and aesthetic authenticity. Burney’s concern with sociability and conversation is evident in her novels, but I want to show that conversation there very often approaches the communicative reason examined by Habermas or, conversely, represents satirically the distortion of it. ![]() Conversation featured prominently in eighteenth-century life-and in literature, too, where conversations are critically examined, often through a metadiscourse of conversation about conversation. ![]()
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