Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically

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IAP, May 1, 2009 - Education - 515 pages
Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linköping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talk-in-interaction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998), The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in Focus Groups (2007, with I. Marková, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).
 

Contents

Conceptual and Terminological Preliminaries
3
2 Dialogism and its Axiomatic Assumptions
11
Monologism
35
Situations and SituationTranscending Practices
49
Dialogue and the Other
69
The Dialogical Self
109
A Relational Interworld Beyond Individual Minds
145
PArt III
163
Rethinking Language in Dynamic Terms
273
14 Dialogue and Grammar
295
Notes
322
Dialogue and Lexicology
325
16 Dialogue and Artifacts
345
Dialogue and the Brain
351
DIALOGICAL THEORIESCONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES
371
19 Monologism and Dialogism
387

10 Meanings and Understandings
221
11 Signs and Representations as Dialogical Entities
237
12 Dynamics and Potentialities of SenseMaking
251
Transcription Conventions 465 Appendix B Categories in InitiativeResponse Analysis
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