A good conversationalist is a rare occurrence. There is a misconception that the tongue is perfectly suspended only in the stupid, the sage, on the contrary, is silent. Such a point of view somehow compromises the public lectures beloved by the people, which have now gained unprecedented popularity. And smart people read them. And most importantly, they find in their listeners a kind of interlocutor. We will talk about the last word today.
Meaning
In this case, you can even play with words and say that the importance of the interlocutor is difficult to overestimate. For example, a person is sitting in a queue and he wants to pass the time somehow to death, but he did not take the book. The reader thinks: “But what about the phone ?!” In our example, there is no phone either. And then someone who is also bored to death turns up, and our two comrades start a casual conversation that can end in a long friendship, and if not, then at least a queue andboth will fit imperceptibly.
And that's if we talk about non-linguistic meaning. And to find out the meaning of the word "interlocutor", let's open the explanatory dictionary: "The one who participates in the conversation." Yes, everything is obviously simple. But the most interesting thing is not this, but the fact that the noun "conversation" has two meanings:
- Conversation, exchange of views.
- A type of popular report, usually with an exchange of views, an interview.
And if we knew about the first meaning, then the second came as a surprise to us. There are no problems with the last noun in the definition, because who will you surprise with an interview now? But what is a "popular report"? It's a mystery. Probably, what is now called a “message” at school and university used to be a “conversation”, but these are just guesses. One way or another, a good conversationalist is a rare bird.
No synonyms
The case when the word refuses to be related to someone. And rightly so, because this once again indicates its uniqueness. We could cite what we found in the dictionary, but believe me: such replacements will not satisfy the reader, because they differ little from the object of study itself. Given the fantastic synonymy of the Russian language, the very presence of words without substitutions speaks volumes. It would be possible here to expand the discussion about eternal values, about unique phenomena, but we will leave that to the reader. Maybe he wants to write an essay about it himself or have a conversation with someone (in the second sense of the word). And we have an interesting phenomenon. But one thing is for sure: nicean interlocutor is someone who is difficult to replace.
Traveller effect
This is the case when the one who is nearby becomes a good conversationalist. Of course, one could recall our queue example, but it does not work here. It is better to take the classics of the genre - long-distance train passengers. Imagine, we find ourselves in a closed space with completely random people, and we need to somehow settle in this place, at least for the duration of the journey from point "A" to point "B". Since there is nothing special to talk about, because we see people for the first time, we begin to talk about ourselves. Moreover, we reveal such details that even psychoanalysts dream of. The main question is why this is happening.
And the main reason is that we will never see our fellow travelers again, so the likelihood that everything said will be used against us is negligible. And when people get a taste, they pronounce their nature to the very bottom. A long-distance train is a space where people do not use the stop-cock of their own complexes, and the word "interlocutor" acquires a magical and mystical meaning. By the way, such relationships rarely end in friendship, because such a strategy contradicts the very idea of the effect of a fellow traveler. Why start a relationship with those who know about a person even more than himself? Perhaps such a situation on the wheel of fate will never happen again. In other words, whatever one may say, there is no foundation for a long-term relationship, and the presence of compromising evidence is very disturbing. And we hope the reader understandsthat in such a situation, a good interlocutor is one who says as little as possible, but at the same time non-verbally shows interest in the conversation.
