Interaction versus action and Luhmann’s sociology of communication

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction: Rethinking communicative interaction 1
5. Part I
6. Dialogicality as an ontology of humanity 29
7. The subject as dialogical fiction 53
8. Language, communication and the development of the self 69
9. Addressing oneself as another 87
10. Complexities of self and social communication 101
11. Part II
12. Histories and discourses 129
13. Autonomy, self-reference and contingency in computational neuroscience 145
14. Interaction versus action and Luhmann’s sociology of communication 163
15. Pragmatic interactions in a second language 187
16. Part III
17. Between uniqueness and universality 209
18. The transition of a Scottish Young Persons’s Centre — a dialogical analysis 235
19. Conversational action 257
20. ‘Flaming’ in computer-mediated interactions 273
21. Constructing the uncertainties of bioterror 295
22. Index of names 317
23. Index of subjects 321