Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations
5. Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue 11
6. Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints 25
7. Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices 43
8. Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning
9. Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisition 57
10. Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialogues 73
11. Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices 87
12. Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom 101
13. Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics
14. Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogue 117
15. Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers 129
16. Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-show 143
17. Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show 161
18. Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality
19. Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markers 175
20. Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatability 189
21. Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textiles 205
22. Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse
23. Chapter 15. “Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people”: Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O’Brien’s comic writing 225
24. Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourse 237
25. Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties 251
26. Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues 265
27. General references 279
28. Index 297