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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973326603321

Autore

Linell Per

Titolo

Approaching dialogue : talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives / / Per Linell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001

ISBN

1-55619-852-3

1-283-09250-6

9786613092502

90-272-8549-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 330 p

Collana

Impact, studies in language and society, , 1385-7908 ; ; v. 3

Classificazione

ER 990

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Dialogue analysis

Discourse analysis

Semantics

Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Monologism and dialogism contrasted -- pt. 2. Interacting and making sense in contexts -- pt. 3. Monologism and dialogism reconciled.

Sommario/riassunto

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics, socio-cultural theory and interdisciplinary dialogue analysis.People's communicative projects, and the structures and functions of talk-in-interaction, are analyzed from the most local sequences to the comprehensive communicative activity types and genres. A second aim of the book is to explore the possibilities and limitations of dialogism as a general epistemology for cognition and communication. On this point, it portrays the dialogical approach as a major alternative to the mainstream theories of cognition as individually-based information processing, communication as information transfer, and language as a code. Stressing aspects of



interaction, joint construction and cultural embeddedness, and drawing upon extensive theoretical and empirical research carried out in different traditions, this book aims at an integrating synthesis. It is largely interdisciplinary in nature, and has been written in such a way that it can be used at advanced undergraduate courses in linguistics, sociopragmatics of language, communication studies, sociology, social psychology and cognitive science.About the author: Per Linell holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and has been professor within the interdisciplinary graduate program of Communication Studies at the University of Linköping, Sweden, since 1981. He has published widely in the fields of discourse studies and social pragmatics of language.