John Benjamins Publishing Company
Dialogue
Abstract
Decades ago André Martinet pointed to the crucial issue of theorizing when he distinguished between object and methodology and told us not to distort our natural object by methodological exigencies. A theory that approaches dialogue as it occurs in the stream of life will inevitably be a holistic adventure: starting from premises about the natural object and deriving from them an adequate methodology of representation. The complex whole in the end is human beings’ minds and their extraordinary ability of competenceinperformance. The paper first outlines the theoretical challenge of a holistic theory of dialogue. Premises about human beings’ actions and behaviour in complex surroundings are put forward and justified by recent findings in neuroscience. From them the methodology of principles of probability is derived. Second, different types of authentic examples are analysed in order to illustrate how human beings’ actions and behaviour can be described and explained in a holistic theory. Keywords: theorizing; methodology; holism; competence-in-performance; dialogue; probability; justification; mind
Abstract
Decades ago André Martinet pointed to the crucial issue of theorizing when he distinguished between object and methodology and told us not to distort our natural object by methodological exigencies. A theory that approaches dialogue as it occurs in the stream of life will inevitably be a holistic adventure: starting from premises about the natural object and deriving from them an adequate methodology of representation. The complex whole in the end is human beings’ minds and their extraordinary ability of competenceinperformance. The paper first outlines the theoretical challenge of a holistic theory of dialogue. Premises about human beings’ actions and behaviour in complex surroundings are put forward and justified by recent findings in neuroscience. From them the methodology of principles of probability is derived. Second, different types of authentic examples are analysed in order to illustrate how human beings’ actions and behaviour can be described and explained in a holistic theory. Keywords: theorizing; methodology; holism; competence-in-performance; dialogue; probability; justification; mind
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction ix
- Dialogue 1
- Towards an inclusive notion of dialog for ethical and moral purposes 17
- Dogmatic dialogue 37
- Representing gender in parliamentary dialogue 59
- Dialogue as a truth-conveying discursive strategy 83
- Democracy and web-based dialogue 99
- The metadiscourse of “voice” 125
- Representation, re-presentation, presentation, and conversation 143
- On the representation of a dialogue with God 161
- Where is dialogue in classroom discussion? 177
- Dialogue entries and exits 195
- Contribution-Representation-Subordination as conversational patterns 215
- On the possibility of rhetoric as a dialogical guide for practical reason(ing) 237
- The role of the moving image in the representation of a sensible dialogue between users and space 257
- Dialogue as a possibility for knowledge in organizations 271
- Socrates as character, Socrates as narrator 289
- Evidential information represented in dialogue 303
- Dialogues between two pupils during the process of writing a fictional story 325
- Author Index 343
- Subject Index 345
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction ix
- Dialogue 1
- Towards an inclusive notion of dialog for ethical and moral purposes 17
- Dogmatic dialogue 37
- Representing gender in parliamentary dialogue 59
- Dialogue as a truth-conveying discursive strategy 83
- Democracy and web-based dialogue 99
- The metadiscourse of “voice” 125
- Representation, re-presentation, presentation, and conversation 143
- On the representation of a dialogue with God 161
- Where is dialogue in classroom discussion? 177
- Dialogue entries and exits 195
- Contribution-Representation-Subordination as conversational patterns 215
- On the possibility of rhetoric as a dialogical guide for practical reason(ing) 237
- The role of the moving image in the representation of a sensible dialogue between users and space 257
- Dialogue as a possibility for knowledge in organizations 271
- Socrates as character, Socrates as narrator 289
- Evidential information represented in dialogue 303
- Dialogues between two pupils during the process of writing a fictional story 325
- Author Index 343
- Subject Index 345
