Talk is the purest sociological form of pure two-way relation.

Evidence

Talk presupposes two parties; it is two-way. In fact, among all sociological phenomena what- ever, with the possible exception of looking at one another, talk is the purest and most sublimated form of two-way-ness. It thus is the fulfillment of a relation that wants to be nothing but relation in which, that is, what usually is the mere form of interaction becomes its self-sufficient content. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2274

Categorization

• XREF: The dyad as pure two-way relation connects to the reader’s Simmel-dyad/triad analysis with Shapiro — talk as the dyadic form par excellence versus the triad that observation introduces.
• DEFINE: Defines two-way-ness (Zweiseitigkeit) as what distinguishes talk among all social forms.