Principles of dialogue

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface 1
4. Introduction 5
5. Origins of the essays 13
6. Part I. Language as dialogue in a theory of communicative competence
7. Introduction to Part I 19
8. The dialogic principle revisited 21
9. Discourse, conversation, dialogue 45
10. Looking for the point of the dialogic turn 71
11. Words and their role in language use 95
12. Lexical units and syntactic structures: Words, phrases, and utterances considered from a comparative viewpoint 113
13. Rhetoric and argumentation in a dialogic perspective 129
14. Part II. At the crossroads
15. Introduction to Part II 147
16. The unit beyond the sentence 149
17. Coherence in discourse 157
18. Emotions in dialogue 165
19. Dialogue in the grip of the media 181
20. Patterns and beyond in dialogic interaction 201
21. Patterns and beyond in lexical semantics 219
22. The end of certainty in dialogue analysis 241
23. Part III. Language as dialogue in a theory of communicative competence-in-performance
24. Introduction to Part III 261
25. The dialogic action game 265
26. Dialogue Analysis 2000 283
27. Possibilities and limitations of corpus linguistics 295
28. Dialogue and teaching in multicultural settings 309
29. Principles of dialogue 323
30. Dialogue 341
31. The argumentative power of words 357
32. A look beyond 379
33. References 381
34. General index 397
35. List of Edda Weigand’s publications 403