This article considers how the essayistic style of William Hazlitt’s printed texts produces, in its form, a critique of what it considers conservatism in speech and its uncritical reception. Situating Hazlitt in a longer history of thought that considers language a form of practical activity, I argue that the conversational character of Hazlitt’s writing is calculated not to resemble speech, but rather to take aim at speech’s false spontaneity.

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与文字交谈

本文考虑了威廉·哈兹利特（William Hazlitt）印刷文本的散文风格如何以其形式对其认为的保守主义言论和不加批判的接受产生了批评。我把哈兹利特置于一个较长的思想史中，认为语言是一种实践活动，我认为哈兹利特的写作中的对话特性并非是为了模仿言论，而是针对言论的虚假自发性。