Beiträge zur Dialogforschung
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Edited by:
Franz Hundsnurscher
Jörn Bollow uses the theory of dialogic action games developed by Weigand to distinguish two functionally different types of political TV interview. Interviews as explorative action games are determined by a superordinate search for knowledge, whereas interviewers in argumentative action games are pursuing a superordinate search for truth. The author analyses German and English interviews to show the communicative principles deployed by the actants to achieve their particular aims as effectively as possible.
The volume presents a selection of papers delivered to the IADA Colloquium held in Lyon in September 2004 on the topic of “Confiding/ Self-disclosure in Interaction”. The objective is to describe a particular type of discursive activity by comparing its various fictional representations (in the first part) with its realisations in authentic interactions (second part). These two sections are preceded by an introduction which locates the general framework of the investigation, and the volume concludes with a final section containing three studies taking an 'intergeneric' or 'transgeneric' overview of the activity of selfdisclosure.
Ce volume présente une sélection d’interventions au colloque IADA tenu à Lyon en septembre 2004, sur le thème „Confidence/dévoilement de soi dans l’interaction”. L’objectif est de décrire un type particulier d’activité discursive, en comparant ses diverses représentations fictionnelles (première partie) avec ses réalisations dans les interactions authentiques (deuxième partie). Ces deux parties sont encadrées par une introduction qui met en place le cadre général de l’investigation, et une dernière partie où sont regroupées trois études portant un regard „intergénérique” ou „transgénérique” sur l’activité de dévoilement de soi.
A poetics of literary dialogue is not something only invented in the modern age. Back in the Middle High German ‘Classical’ era, a culture was already beginning to develop of verbal strategies for resolving conflict and performing other conversational functions, with literary texts representing their ideal forms. The papers in this volume combine methods from linguistics and literary studies to approach a new description of the dialogues in large-scale MHG epics. They present supratextual accounts of different types of dialogue and forms typical of certain genres and media as well as case studies of important individual epics.
The present volume proposes a typology of communicative action in corporate settings by interspersing theoretical considerations with empirical examples. Dialogic action games - information, argumentation, planning, instructions, motivation, negotiation, inquiry, verification, problem-solving - can be readily related to the essential objectives and structures of companies as institutions. Reference to a number of authentic dialogues provides evidence that the achievement of these objectives is highly dependent on the parameters imposed by corporate culture.
In April 2004, a group of international scholars convened in Chicago, Illinois for a workshop of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. The selected papers from the workshop which are included in this volume represent a breadth of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Together, the variety of perspectives adds to a deeper understanding of the complex nature of dialogic interaction. The volume is intended for scholars and students in the field, offering a view of dialogue analysis from its more traditional origins to contemporary trends in discourse studies.
The study describes and compares politeness in 'directive' language games in German and Korean. On the basis of a speech-act theory of dialogue, utterance variants with different politeness functions are identified and related to respective cultural particularities. The results indicate both differences and commonalities in the orientation to principles of politeness, thus not only extending the insights of systematic linguistic analysis but also pinpointing politeness as an integral component of communicative grammar.
These two volumes offer a selection of the papers held at the conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) in 2003. Volume I contains 38 articles devoted to dialogue and the phenomenon of 'dialogicity' in literature, ranging from antiquity to a large number of modern languages and literatures. The conversation-analytic approaches drawn upon are notable for their methodological diversity. This is also true of the 32 articles in Volume II. The main focus here is on present-day types of dialogue in the new electronic media and their 'traditional' counterparts (press, radio, television, film). The examples are taken from various countries, and they are discussed in terms of the intercultural, semiotic, translatorial, and general pragmatic issues they pose.
These two volumes offer a selection of the papers held at the conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) in 2003. Volume I contains 38 articles devoted to dialogue and the phenomenon of 'dialogicity' in literature, ranging from antiquity to a large number of modern languages and literatures. The conversation-analytic approaches drawn upon are notable for their methodological diversity. This is also true of the 32 articles in Volume II. The main focus here is on present-day types of dialogue in the new electronic media and their 'traditional' counterparts (press, radio, television, film). The examples are taken from various countries, and they are discussed in terms of the intercultural, semiotic, translatorial, and general pragmatic issues they pose.
The volume contains a selection of articles selected from the International workshop of IADA in Utrecht. Next to some theoretical paper and overview studies of multicultural schools, the majority of the contributions analyses in specific ways the dialogues between students and between students and teachers in multicultural schools. The attention of the analysis centred on various forms of exclusion and discrimination, as effects of unintentional uses of mono-linguistic or mono-cultural attitudes of the teachers.
The book explores aspects of reflexivity and interactivity in a variety of academic genres: oral and written, scientific and educational. Academic discourse is explored from a variety of perspectives that take a dialogic view of language use as their starting point, ranging from conversation analysis to descriptive or applied genre studies. Particular attention is paid to the way metadiscursive expressions contribute to a representation of the communicative procedures that characterise the ongoing (scientific and educational) dialogues.
The present collection of articles, presented at the 8th IADA Conference in Göteborg, focuses on understanding and misunderstanding as dialogic phenomena. The notion of a dialogic grammar and dialogic principles as a framework for understanding human communication and cognition is explored in several contributions. Misunderstanding in dialogue is dealt with in institutional and non-institutional settings, in fiction and film dialogue, from several different theoretical perspectives.
Hardly any other phenomenon has left such a mark on the cultural history of the West as the art of persuasion. From Plato's critique of the Sophists to present-day discourse ethics, the indissoluble ambivalence of persuasion has exerted its fascination in a field that extends from inducement to convincement. The present study takes a dialogue-analytic approach to the problem, with additional reference to aspects of the history of rhetoric, text linguistics, and language philosophy. Examples from actual texts illustrate the communication theory behind the approach.
The volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis in the year 2000. Part I discusses general methodological issues - mostly within the framework of discourse and conversation analysis - whereas Part II presents specific case studies. The volume includes contributions that address both traditional areas of dialogue analysis such as politeness, and more recent areas of interest such as argumentation or the analysis of dialogic interaction in specific contexts.
The study deals with syntactic and formal features of interrogative utterances, illocutionary and dialogic aspects of interrogative acts, and the lexical/semantic analysis of interrogative verbs. Detailed descriptions are made of sequence-dependent interrogative acts such as 'ask back', 'inquire', 'question', 'counter-question', and 'query'. The lexical/semantic analysis delineates the uses of the verbs fragen (ask), zurückfragen (ask back), nachfragen (inquire), and hinterfragen (query), and establishes the connections with the corresponding types of interrogative. The study is based on an extensive corpus.
Pragmatic Syntax is a research program deriving the explanation of the syntactic form of utterances from underlying principles of speech action. This enables it to focus on linguistic phenomena necessarily phased out in non-pragmatic approaches. Among these are specific word order regularities, elliptic sentences, foregrounding in sentences, and the use of phraseological forms. The articles in the volume approaching the connection between language use and the syntactic form of utterances from various perspectives, but are all informed by a joint commitment to the idea of using pragmatics to get to the bottom of syntax.
This volume brings together contributors from 30 universities in 22 countries. It includes both theoretical papers which present new methods of analysis and practical studies of dialogue, much of which was recorded in work settings - a binary focus encapsulated in the title, »Working with Dialogue«. The settings from which the data was collected are diverse: the media, the courtroom, the classroom, the home and the clinic, as well as from literary texts. The book is ordered in such a way that each paper links theoretically, methodologically and/or topically with those on either side of it.
The history of forms of communication is a new branch of Historical Pragmatics. The contributions to this volume study continuity and innovation in forms of communication in the Middle Ages, the 17th and 20th century, extending from narrative forms to information and infotainment, advertising, and language teaching. There is a focus on developments in various media, such as 17th century German newspapers and English street ballads, German television commentaries since the 1960s, the use of Spanish in the Internet, and new dimensions in academic teaching with the introduction of modern digital media.
CMC – Computer Mediated Communication is one of the catchwords of modern society. The importance of the Internet grows dramatically from year to year in more or less all disciplines. This volume contains the papers (12 contributions in English and 6 in German) read at an international meeting of the IADA (International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Bologna) in Erlangen, April 2–3, 1998. There were two sections at the conference, one dealt with the new means of electronic communication, mainly with E-Mail communication and with Internet Relay Chat (IRC), the other, more traditional, dealt with dialogues on television and the radio, or with specific aspects of Mass Media communication.
This volume edited by Eddo Rigotti with the collaboration of Sara Cigada assembles papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Lugano in April 1997. From a variety of perspectives the papers address the question of meaning in argumentation, a phenomenon that has come to be regarded as belonging to the domain of rhetoric. Special attention is given to the connections between rhetoric, argumentation and reason as brought to light by the analysis of written and oral texts.
This book inquires into what party politicians do to be successful in competing with their rivals. First, they must command a specific kind of commmunicative knowledge and specific conflict strategies. Politicians lock horns under different conditions from their voters: they engage with each other as representatives of their parties, in front of an audience, and above all in a bid for political power. Thus party political conflicts are highly complex action/language games planned and enacted in accordance with special strategies. Of interest is the question where these strategies come from and what effects they have on the way present-day politicians use language. A historical comparison of political language games in the GDR, the 'old' Federal Republic, and its modern-day counterpart reveals that long-established and long-rehearsed conflict strategies are astonishingly tenacious although there are viable alternatives. These alternatives are discussed in detail and presented in the form of communicative 'modules'. This instrument is then used to examine and evaluate the strategic consistency of party communication in the German general elections of 1994.
The volume assembles papers dealing with various sectors of dialogue research: 1. rhetoric and argumentation (including dialogue and argumentation in scientific and scholarly works and teaching manuals), 2. the semiotics of dialogue (oral and written, non-verbal communication, including Internet communication and the role of the electronic media), 3. linguistic perspectives on dialogue analysis (grammar, semantics, phonetics), 4. dialogue and institutions (school, therapy, police, lawcourts), 5. dialogue in politics and the mass media, 6. dialogue in the arts (literature, drama, film, music).
The volume assembles papers dealing with various sectors of dialogue research: 1. rhetoric and argumentation (including dialogue and argumentation in scientific and scholarly works and teaching manuals), 2. the semiotics of dialogue (oral and written, non-verbal communication, including Internet communication and the role of the electronic media), 3. linguistic perspectives on dialogue analysis (grammar, semantics, phonetics), 4. dialogue and institutions (school, therapy, police, lawcourts), 5. dialogue in politics and the mass media, 6. dialogue in the arts (literature, drama, film, music).
The 52 articles contained in this volume were presented as papers at the Fourth Working Session on Dialogue Analysis in Paris in March 1994. The four sections reflect the usual broad range of concerns, approaches and methodologies. "General and Structural Aspects - Theory and Methodology" and "Case Studies and Sample Descriptions" provide scope for a wide range of topics, including questions pertaining to translation and media research. (It was thus possible to get by without a special Section on "Media and the Computer".) The Section "Dialogue in Literature" brings together linguistics and literary studies. As always the Section on "Social and Psychological Aspects - Language Defects" occupies an important position. In their totality the papers reflect the present state of dialogue analysis or an international plane and also document its status as a genuinely interdisciplinary and hence highly future-orientied area of research.
Proceeding from a discussion of striking text-immanent features relating both to form and content, the study examines some 70 German dialogue texts dating from between 1521 and 1525 and inquires into the situative conditions determining the production of these flysheets. It transpires that as a functional genre the Reformation dialogue can be classified as belonging primarily to the genus deliberativum / genus didascale, a specific form of theological rhetoric.
The topic of this volume was discussed at a Round Table of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) at the University of Bologna in March 1995. The Round Table was intended to make a scientific contribution in honour of the president's 65th birthday. The topic refers on the one hand to the central problem of 'Dialogue Analysis' which is to discover a new, communicatively functioning unit after having left behind the unit of the sentence which can be considered the unit par excellence of structural linguistics. On the other hand, it includes the manifold units, relations, and strategies, i.e. the specific problems of dialogue analysis.
