Chapter 1. Perspectives on language and discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xiii
4. Part I. Monologism and Dialogism Constracted
5. Chapter 1. Perspectives on language and discourse 3
6. Chapter 2. Monologism: Its basic assumptions 17
7. Chapter 3. Dialogism: Some historical roots and present-day trends 35
8. Chapter 4. Language strusture and linguistiv practices 55
9. Part II. Interacting and making sense in contexts
10. Chapter 5. The dynamics of dialogue 67
11. Chapter 6. Speakers and listeners 91
12. Chapter 7. Sense-making in discourse and the situated fixation of linguistic meanings 111
13. Chapter 8. Contexts in discourse and discourse in context 127
14. Chapter 9. Elementary contributors to discourse 159
15. Chapter 10. Episodes and topics 181
16. Chapter 11. Communitative projects 207
17. Chapter 12. situation definitions, activity types and communicative genres 235
18. Part III. Monologism and dialogism reconciled?
19. Chapter 13. Diaologism: opportunities and limitations 263
20. Chapter 14. Reconstructing monologism as a special case 277
21. References 289
22. Appendix: Transcription conventions 321
23. Index 323