Dialogue Analysis VIII : Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue.

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 severa...

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Main Author: Aijmer, Karin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2004.
Series:Beiträge zur Dialogforschung.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Chapter 1: Dialogical Grammar and Spoken Interaction; On Some Principles of a Dialogical Grammar; What do Linguistic Descriptions have to say about Discourse?; Chapter 2: Misunderstanding as a Dialogical Phenomenon; Misunderstanding
  • A Dialogic Problem; Infelicitous Communication or Degrees of Misunderstanding?; Understanding Misunderstanding: Kafka's The Trial; Modal Competence and Misunderstandings in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Misunderstandings at Work.
  • Do Italians 'Prefer' Disagreeing? Some Interactional Features of Disputational Talk in Italian Multi-Party Family InteractionThe Logical Structure of Dialogue and the Representation of Emotions: An Example from Hitchcock's Notorious; "He hired who?": Problems in Reference Assignments in Conversations; Chapter 3: Signposting in the Dialogue; The Discourse Marker so in Native and Non-native Discourse; Subjective and Objective Grounding in Discourse Markers: A Cross-linguistic Corpus-driven Approach; Chapter 4: Exploring Dialogue in Academic Discourse.
  • Talking Academic: A Corpus Approach to Academic SpeechUniversity of La Plata, Catholic University of Santiago. Topic Progression in Science Interviews; Pragmatic Implications of the Use of we as a Receiver-including and Receiver-excluding Pronoun; Chapter 5: Dialogue and Multilingual or Multicultural Schools; Dialogues and Exclusion in Multicultural Schools; Content and Language Integrated Learning: Interactions in Bilingual Classrooms; Chapter 6: Focus Group Discussions; Virtual Participants as Communicative Resources in Discussions on Gene Technology.
  • Exploring Focus Groups: Analysing Focus Group Data about Genetically Modified FoodChapter 7: Dialogue Analysis and Corpora; Possibilities and Limitations of Corpus Linguistics.