"To converse is to listen, not only to what is said, but also to what is not said - this is an ethical move and not a pragmatic one such as for more efficient communication and so on...To converse is to understand language as something more than it representations in the spoken and written mode - and this awareness about language is again not knowledge about language but an orientation towards language, an orientation that can be characterised as ethical."
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