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  title info:
    title: What I mean to say
    sub title: remaking conversation in our time
  name:
    name part: Williams, Ian
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 233 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Enough small talk. Let's get right to it. Why can't we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation? In contemporary society, much of our communication exists in a new dimension, the online space, and it's changing how we regard each other and how we converse. In the digital realm, we can be anonymous, we can make false and hurtful comments, yet evade consequences in a hurried scroll of clicks and swipes. But a good conversation takes time and patience, courage, even. We need to realize that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. And aren't the best conversationalists, like the best musicians, good listeners? With What I Mean to Say, award-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings. Alternately serious and playful, Williams nimbly leaps between topics of discussion and, along the way, is discursive, digressive and endlessly generous, like any great conversationalist.
  note: Ian Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Conversation
  subject:
    topic: Listening
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal communication
  classification: HM1166 .W55 2024
  classification: 302.34/6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Massey lectures series
  identifier: 9781487013424
  identifier: 1487013426
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240417
    record change date: 20250926194614.5
    record identifier: in00005530227
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng