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Conversation and Community Building in Jane Austen’s Novels
WANG Wan-ying
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.08.005
Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
In recent years, much attention from home and abroad has been paid to the role that conversation plays in building community in Jane Austen’s novels. But the interpretations are merely confined to one or two of Austen’s novels. Actually, her six novels all have embodied her devotions to conversation and community building. Through literary language, she has fully demonstrated us how to shape community through proper conversation. Only the conversation that unites both sincerity and politeness is bound to help form peaceful and warm community.
Jane Austen, conversation, community building
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