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Dialogue and Culture
Editors
The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called ‘language instinct debate’ between nativists and empiricists and introduces a mediating position that regards language and dialogue as determined by both human nature and culture. This sets the framework for the contributions of Part II which propose varying theoretical positions on how to address the ways in which culture influences dialogue. Part III presents more empirically oriented studies which demonstrate the interaction of components in the ‘mixed game’ and focus, in particular, on specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication.
[Dialogue Studies, 1] 2007. xii, 262 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. ix–xi
- Part I. Language, biology and culture: The crucial debate
- Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture and why it shouldn'tGeoffrey Sampson | pp. 3–25
- The sociobiology of languageEdda Weigand | pp. 27–49
- Part II. Theoretical positions
- Some general thoughts about linguistic typology and dialogue linguisticsWalter Bisang | pp. 53–72
- Intercultural dialogue and academic discourseSvĕtla Čmejrková | pp. 73–94
- The speech act of refusals within the minimal action game: A comparative study of German and JapaneseMarion Grein | pp. 95–113
- Gestural regulators in French, Japanese and American English dialoguesCaroline E. Nash | pp. 115–140
- Quantity scales towards culture-specific profiles of discourse normsElda Weizman | pp. 141–152
- Part III. Empirically oriented studies of the 'mixed game': Specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication
- Dialogue interpreting as intercultural mediation: An analysis in health care multicultural settingsClaudio Baraldi and Laura Gavioli | pp. 155–175
- Cultural differences in the speech act of greetingSebastian Feller | pp. 177–190
- Refusals and politeness in directive action games: Cultural differences between Korean and GermanYongkil Cho | pp. 191–212
- How diplomatic can a language be? The unwritten rules in a language: An analysis of spoken SinhalaNeelakshi Chandrasena Premawardhena | pp. 213–225
- Cultural values and their hierarchies in everyday discourseKsenia Shilikhina | pp. 227–237
- Cultural and contextual constraints in communicationMichael R. Walrod | pp. 239–256
- General index | pp. 257–260
- List of contributors | pp. 261–262
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