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Dialogue in Spanish
Studies in functions and contexts
Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue. This edited collection of twelve original studies contributes to a broad comprehension of dialogue in two general contexts: personal interactions among friends and family; and public speech, such as political debates, medical interviews, court translations and service encounters. The studies, written by authors from Canada, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, the United States and Venezuela, present an in-depth look at issues and elements of dialogue such as irony, narrativity, discourse markers, coherence, conflict and expectations. Background research on dialogue grounds the articles in such areas as discourse analysis, pragmatics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and linguistics. The book will prove useful to those who study conversational interaction, pragmatics, and discourse analysis as applied to various functions and contexts, and it will be of particular interest to researchers and students of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, communications and education.
[Dialogue Studies, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2010
Published online on 7 June 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionDale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano | pp. vii–xiii
- 1. A continuum of approaches to dialogueLidia Rodríguez-Alfano | pp. 1–27
- Part I. Dialogue in interpersonal contexts of informal conversation
- 2. Dialogues within oral narratives: Functions and formsLaura Camargo-Fernández | pp. 31–54
- 3. Being polite through ironyXosé A. Padilla García and M. Belén Alvarado-Ortega | pp. 55–68
- 4. Humor in verbal ironyMaría Isabel Kalbermatten | pp. 69–88
- 5. Evaluation, interpersonal meaning and co-construction in oral narratives by Mexican adolescentsIrene Fonte and Rodney Williamson | pp. 89–116
- 6. The truth about verdad: Its discursive uses and its modal-epistemic valueJosé Esteban Hernández and Beatriz Solís | pp. 117–136
- 7. Backchannels as a realization of interaction: Some uses of mm and mhm in SpanishNadezhda Bravo Cladera | pp. 137–156
- Part II. Dialogue in public, professional, and educational contexts
- 8. Dialogue in the dynamics of political practiceAdriana Bolívar | pp. 159–188
- 9. Conflict resolution: Mexican and Spanish strategies of repairLori Czerwionka | pp. 189–220
- 10. A discourse analysis of Alzheimer-type dementia in personal conversationsBeatriz Valles-González | pp. 221–236
- 11. Triadic discourse: Interpreter-mediated dialogueFritz G. Hensey | pp. 237–256
- 12. Behind L2 pragmatics: The role of emerging expectationsDale Koike | pp. 257–282
- Conclusions and implications of studies that approach dialogue in its complexityDale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano | pp. 283–290
- General index | pp. 315–318
- List of contributors | pp. 321–324
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Gubitosi, Patricia & Irina Lifszyc
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Hess Zimmermann, Karina, Graciela Fernández Ruiz & Andrea Minerva Silva López
Săftoiu, Răzvan
2018. Adriana Bolívar. 2018. Political Discourse as Dialogue. A Latin American Perspective
. Language and Dialogue 8:3 ► pp. 483 ff.
Blyth, Carl S. & Dale Koike
2014. Interactional frames and grammatical constructions. In Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244], ► pp. 87 ff.
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