# Speech and Conversation **Domain:** American Comportment Domain **System:** [[wiki/American Comportment|American Comportment]] ## Definition Speech and Conversation is the American standard of making the room better informed without making another person smaller. It values clear claims, careful listening, useful questions, named credit, proportionate disagreement, and brevity as respect. Conversation is an exchange of thought rather than an exhibition of status. The strongest speaker leaves other people more capable of answering. ## Place in the American System Speech and Conversation is developed from [[american/American Comportment - 02 - Speech and Conversation|American Comportment - 02 - Speech and Conversation]] and belongs to [[collections/American|the American Collection]]. Its role is to keep one stable concept available across doctrine, character, comportment, material culture, intelligence participation, and alliance work without collapsing those levels into one another. ## Relationships [[wiki/Respect|Respect]] · [[wiki/Meeting Conduct|Meeting Conduct]] · [[wiki/Civic Literacy|Civic Literacy]] ## Sources / Provenance The governing source is [[american/American Comportment - 02 - Speech and Conversation|American Comportment - 02 - Speech and Conversation]]; the wider architecture is routed through [[wiki/American System|American System]].