In:Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability
Edda Weigand
[Dialogue Studies 5] 2009
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 17 December 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.5.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Introduction: In the tide of change
Origins of the essays
Part I.
Language as dialogue in a theory of communicative competence
Introduction to Part I
The dialogic principle revisited: Speech acts and mental states
Discourse, conversation, dialogue
Looking for the point of the dialogic turn
Words and their role in language use
Lexical units and syntactic structures: Words, phrases, and utterances considered from a comparative viewpoint
Rhetoric and argumentation in a dialogic perspective
Part II.
At the crossroads: Opening up the theory of competence
Introduction to Part II
The unit beyond the sentence
Coherence in discourse: A never-ending problem
Emotions in dialogue
Dialogue in the grip of the media
Patterns and beyond in dialogic interaction: Basic issues in language technology
Patterns and beyond in lexical semantics: The issue of word meaning in language technology
The end of certainty in dialogue analysis
Part III.
Language as dialogue in a theory of communicative competence-in-performance
Introduction to Part III
The dialogic action game
Dialogue Analysis 2000: Towards a human linguistics
Possibilities and limitations of corpus linguistics
Dialogue and teaching in multicultural settings
Principles of dialogue: With a special focus on business dialogues
Dialogue: Text and context
The argumentative power of words: Or how to move people’s minds with words
A look beyond
References
General index
List of Edda Weigand’s publications
