Article published In: Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
[Language and Dialogue 8:1] 2018
► pp. 118–138
Integrationist reflections on the place of dialogue in our communicational universe
Laying the ghost of segregationism?
Published online: 26 April 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00008.jon
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00008.jon
Abstract
Roy Harris identifies the “main flaw” in J. L. Austin’s account of language as a “failure to consider to what extent being able to ‘do things with words’ is parasitic on being able to do things without them”. Harris’s comment here serves as a springboard for a critical evaluation of communicational theories based around “talk-in-interaction” or dialogic principles. The primacy thereby given to linguistic interaction arguably entails a mystification of communication processes and the dis-integration of the social world into which our communicational experiences are intervowen. Consequently, the ghost of segregationism, in the shape of Harris’s “fallacy of verbalism”, continues to haunt, at times faintly, at times aggressively, the assumptions and methodologies of the approaches in question.
Keywords: communication, dialogism, talk-in-interaction, integrationism, segregationism
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Conversation analysis
- 3.Per Linell’s dialogism
- 4.Edda Weigand’s “Mixed Game Model”
- 4.1MGM and the “Dialogic Principle”
- 4.2Edda Weigand’s MGM in integrationist perspective
- 4.3Dialogic interaction and “integrational binding”
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
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