Literary notes about rapport (AI summary)
The term “rapport” appears in literature with a striking diversity of meanings, ranging from the intimate to the formal. In novels like Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, it conveys a sense of mutual understanding or affinity between individuals ("I was conscious of rapport between you and myself" [1]), while in other works it is used more technically to describe formal reports or records, as seen in accounts and official documents during eras of political revolution ([2], [3], [4], [5], [6]). In sociological and psychological texts, notably those by Burgess and Park, “rapport” is discussed as a phenomenon of group dynamics, linking states of hypnosis, suggestion, and even the emergence of group consciousness ([7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]). Meanwhile, French instructional texts employ “rapport” in various metaphorical and definitional senses—from describing proportional relations to conveying connections between concepts ([16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]). Even poets like Walt Whitman harness the term to evoke transcendent connections that bridge the personal and the cosmic ([22], [23], [24], [25]). This multifaceted application underscores how “rapport” has evolved in literary usage to encapsulate both empirical relationships and the more ineffable bonds of human experience.
- I was conscious of rapport between you and myself.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - ( Rapport de M. Aubriot Choiseul, p. 150-7. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - Rapport du Captaine des Canonniers, Rapport du Commandant, &c. Ibid.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - ( Extrait d'un Rapport de M. Deslons, Choiseul, p. 164-7. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - Rapport de la Commission Mixte, 1850.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - ( Rapport de Chabroud ( Moniteur, du 31 December, 1789 ). )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - What is meant by rapport in the group may be illustrated by a somewhat similar phenomenon which occurs in hypnosis.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Moreover, we have need of sympathetic rapport for our motor reactions against pain.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Self-consciousness passes over, in the rapport thus established, into group consciousness.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - This is the condition called "isolated rapport."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - What do you understand to be the relation of suggestion and rapport to subordination and superordination?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - But in normal social situations, unlike hypnotism, there may be the effect of suggestion where no rapport exists.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - In the family, rapport and consensus represent the most complete co-ordination of its members.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - What is the relation of rapport to suggestion?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Rapport has, for the time being, made the crowd, in a peculiarly intimate way, a social unit.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - , marquant le rapport d'une chose à ce qui la contient.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - collecte , f. , quête. collection , f. , recueil d'objets qui ont du rapport.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - nombre , m. , rapport entre une quantité et une autre quantité prise comme terme de comparaison et qu'on appelle unité.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - rapport , m. , récit, compte rendu; conformité, relation.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - Tenir -- de , faire un rapport de. compter , calculer; se proposer.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - , exprime un rapport de tendance, de situation ou de provenance.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - —I only seek to put you in rapport.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Yet there never were audiences that paid a good actor or an interesting play the compliment of more sustain'd attention or quicker rapport.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Certain music from wondrous voices or skilful players—then poetic glints still more—put the soul in rapport with death, or toward it.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - From the whole dome shot down points of light, rapport with me, through the clear blue-black.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman