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Spaces of Polyphony
Spaces of Polyphony covers a lot of ground. It echoes the voices of researchers and their informants from many different places and backgrounds. Among the variety of languages under study and methodological approaches there is also a common ground and narrative thread underpinning the polyphonic chorus of the contributors. From a shared starting point of discourse analysis and inspiration from Bakhtin, the various authors span from East to West, from Moscow to Texas, from Romania and Czech Republic to Mexico. They look into all ages, starting from early childhood, and many walks of life, ranging from casual chatting among relatives to parliamentary speeches and TV shows, including formal education, literary inner monologue and translation. Irony, humour and self-awareness are recurrent themes. The array of voices and dialogism studied in this book is such that it even includes the silent (silenced) voices of people forced to express their heritage by weaving their discourse.
[Dialogue Studies, 15] 2012. vii, 299 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 August 2012
Published online on 16 August 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionClara Ubaldina Lorda and Patrick Zabalbeascoa | pp. 1–8
- Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations
- Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogueRobert E. Sanders | pp. 11–24
- Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaintsMaria Christodoulidou | pp. 25–42
- Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices: Conversational humour as a polyphonic phenomenonBéatrice Priego-Valverde | pp. 43–54
- Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning
- Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisitionAliyah Morgenstern | pp. 57–72
- Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialoguesClaudio Baraldi | pp. 73–86
- Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practicesFederico Farini | pp. 87–100
- Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroomRachel Elizabeth Showstack | pp. 101–114
- Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics
- Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogueDaciana Vlad | pp. 117–128
- Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answersMaria Sivenkova | pp. 129–142
- Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-showMartin Havlík | pp. 143–160
- Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-showSvĕtla Čmejrková and Jana Hoffmannová | pp. 161–172
- Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality
- Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markersMargareta Manu Magda | pp. 175–188
- Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatabilityAna Ene | pp. 189–204
- Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textilesJosefina Anaya | pp. 205–222
- Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse
- Chapter 15. “Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people”: Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O’Brien’s comic writingFlore Coulouma | pp. 225–236
- Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourseEmilia Afana Parpala | pp. 237–250
- Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the ninetiesCarmen Popescu | pp. 251–264
- Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologuesIlaria Riccioni and Andrzej Zuczkowski | pp. 265–278
- General references | pp. 279–296
- Index | pp. 297–299
“The lively dialogism and colorful array of voices in this book make it an exciting and memorable ‘polyphonic journey’. It represents a valuable resource for students and scholars of dialogue analysis, literary analysis, linguistics and intercultural communication who seek to broaden their knowledge of the field beyond their specialization.”
Guofeng Wang, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies Vol. 16:5 (2014)
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