From Pragmatics To Dialogue

Author : Edda Weigand,Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263742

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From Pragmatics to Dialogue by Edda Weigand,Istvan Kecskes Pdf

This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two ‘circles’ which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object, ‘language use’. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however no clear answer as to what language use means. We are instead confronted with multiple and diverse models in an uncircumscribed field of language use. When trying to transform such a puzzle of pieces into a meaningful picture we are confronted with the complexity of language use which does not mean ‘language’ put to ‘use’ but represents the unity of a complex whole and calls for a total change in methodology towards a holistic theory. Human beings as dialogic individuals use language as dialogue which allows them to tackle the vicissitudes of their lives. Dialogue and its methodology of action and reaction can be traced back to human nature and provides the key to the unstructured field of pragmatics. The contributions to this volume share this common ground and address various perspectives in different types of action game.

Author : Per Linell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218339

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Approaching Dialogue by Per Linell Pdf

"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 Linkoping, Sweden, since 1981. He has published widely in the fields of discourse studies and social pragmatics of language.

Author : Louise Phillips
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027210296

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The Promise of Dialogue by Louise Phillips Pdf

Presents a theoretical framework for analysing the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge that builds bridges across three research traditions - dialogic communication theory, action research, and science and technology studies. This title provides an account of the dialogic turn through case studies.

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Gerd Fritz,Franz Lebsanft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283795

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Historical Dialogue Analysis by Andreas H. Jucker,Gerd Fritz,Franz Lebsanft Pdf

Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the introductory paper by the editors and the individual papers deal with fundamental theoretical questions, e.g. the question of types of historical developments in dialogue forms, and methodological problems, e.g. the finding and interpretation of relevant data. The fifteen case studies presented in this volume provide a wide range of new data. The range of topics includes the pragmatic form of 16th century religious controversies in Germany, forms of polite answers in Early Modern German conversation culture, forms of dialogue in Early Modern English medical writing, learning English through dialogues in the 16th century, structures of bargaining dialogues in Late Medieval French, and reflections of spontaneous dialogue in Early Romance texts.

Author : Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288882

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Language as Dialogue by Edda Weigand Pdf

With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus substantially shaped the way in which people look at language today. This book traces Weigand’s linguistic career from its beginning to today and comprises a selection of articles which take the reader on a vivid and fascinating journey through the most important stages of her theorizing. The initial stage when a model of communicative competence was developed is followed by a gradual transition period which finally resulted in the theory of the dialogic action game as a mixed game or the Mixed Game Model. The articles cover a wide range of linguistic topics including, among others, speech act theory, lexical semantics, utterance grammar, emotions, the media, rhetoric and institutional communication. Editorial introductions give further information on the origin and theoretical background of the articles included.

Author : Edda Weigand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317612599

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue by Edda Weigand Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue is the first comprehensive overview of the emerging and rapidly growing sub-discipline in linguistics, Language and Dialogue. Edited by one of the top scholars in the field, Edda Weigand, and comprising contributions written by a variety of likewise influential figures, the handbook aims to describe the history of modern linguistics as reasoned progress leading from de Saussure and the simplicity of artificial terms to the complexity of human action and behaviour, which is based on the integration of human abilities such as speaking, thinking, perceiving, and having emotions. The book is divided into three sections: the first focuses on the history of modern linguistics and related disciplines; the second part focuses on the core issues and open debates in the field of Language and Dialogue and introduces the arguments pro and contra certain positions; and the third section focuses on the three components that fundamentally affect language use: human nature, institutions, and culture. This handbook is the ideal resource for those interested in the relationship between Language and Dialogue, and will be of use to students and researchers in Linguistics and related fields such as Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, and Communication.

Author : François Cooren,Alain Létourneau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273161

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(Re)presentations and Dialogue by François Cooren,Alain Létourneau Pdf

This edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as representation, 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues, and 3. Representations of dialogue. The first interpretation -- Dialogue as representation -- consists of exploring dialogue as an activity where many things, beings or voices can be made present, whether we think in terms of ideologies, cultures, situations, collectives, roles, etc. The second interpretation – Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues – leads scholars to explore questions of normativity, which are often associated with the notion of dialogue, when conceived as a morally stronger form of conversation. Finally, the third interpretation – Representations of dialogue – invites us to address methodological questions related to the representation of this type of conversation. Echoing Bakhtin, contributors were invited to explore the polyphonic, heteroglot, or dialogic character of any text, discourse or interaction.

Author : Myriam Bras,Laure Vieu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585474397

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Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue by Myriam Bras,Laure Vieu Pdf

This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL).

Author : Peter Kühnlein,Hannes Rieser,Henk Zeevat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296184

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Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium by Peter Kühnlein,Hannes Rieser,Henk Zeevat Pdf

The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of dialogue. Other matters still are disputed. This volume contains papers both of foundational and applied orientation. It is the result of one of a series of specialized Workshops on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue that took place in 2001. One can therefore truly say that it mirrors both the state of the art at the end of the past millennium and research strategies that are pursued at the beginning of the new millennium. The collected papers cover the range from philosophy of language to computer science, from the analysis of presupposition to investigations into corpora, and touches upon topics like the role of speech acts in dialogue or language specific phenomena. This broad coverage will make the volume valuable for students of dialogue from all fields of expertise.

Author : François Cooren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288196

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Action and Agency in Dialogue by François Cooren Pdf

What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as “doing things with words”? That is, what if other “things” could also be granted the status of agents in a dialogical situation? Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation, and ventriloquism proposes to explore this unique hypothesis by mobilizing metaphorically the notion of ventriloquism. According to this ventriloqual perspective, interactions are never purely local, but dislocal, that is, they constantly mobilize figures (collectives, principles, values, emotions, etc.) that incarnate themselves in people’s discussions. This highly original book, which develops the analytical, practical and ethical dimensions of such a theoretical positioning, may be of interest to communication scholars, linguists, sociologists, conversation analysts, management and organizational scholars, as well as philosophers interested in language, action and ethics.

Author : Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287465

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Dialogue – The Mixed Game by Edda Weigand Pdf

The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests by the integrated use of various communicative means, mainly verbal, perceptual and cognitive. The core unit is the dialogic action game or ‘the mixed game’ with human beings at the centre acting and reacting in cultural surroundings. The key to opening up the complex whole is human beings’ nature. The Mixed Game Model demonstrates how the different disciplines of the natural and social sciences and the humanities are mutually interconnected. After a detailed overview of the state of the art, the fundamentals of the theory are laid down. They include a typology of action games which ranges from minimal games to complex institutional games. The description is illustrated by analyses of authentic games.

Author : Gabriella Mazzon,Luisanna Fodde Melis
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788820413842

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Historical Perspectives on Forms of English Dialogue by Gabriella Mazzon,Luisanna Fodde Melis Pdf

Author : Marcelo Dascal,Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250018

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Dialogue by Marcelo Dascal,Hubert Cuyckens Pdf

Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its 'classic' narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue. It is a first move toward interdisciplinary research in Dialogue Studies.

Author : Harry C. Bunt,W. J. Black
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249838

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Abduction, Belief, and Context in Dialogue by Harry C. Bunt,W. J. Black Pdf

This title delves into the world of pragmatics; of abduction and induction, and looks at topics such as context modelling, and an activity-based approach to pragmatics, as well as discourse focus tracking.

Author : Nöel Houck
Publisher : Teachers of English to
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1931185700

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Pragmatics by Nöel Houck Pdf

This volume provides a range of activities to put to immediate use in the classroom, as students learn skills such as turn-taking, apologies, compliments and compliment responses, and use of responders.