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Citation reference: Harvey, L., 2012-24, Social Research Glossary, Quality Research International, http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/
This is a dynamic glossary and the author would welcome any e-mail suggestions for additions or amendments.
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Conversation
An informal exchange of ideas, information, news, feelings and humour between two or more people.
A conversation can take place face-to-face, using telecommunications or via the Internet. A conversation has some substance to it and is more then, for example, the fleeting exchange of greetings. Similarly, commands and orders do not constitute a conversation. Conversations follow rules of etiquette because conversations are social interactions, and therefore depend on social convention.
Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro
Conversation is a progression of exchanges among participants. Each participant is a “learning system,” that is, a system that changes internally as a consequence of experience. This highly complex type of interaction is also quite powerful, for conversation is the means by which existing knowledge is conveyed and new knowledge is generated.
See also
Researching the Real World Section 6.2
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