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Article published In: Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
[Language and Dialogue 8:1] 2018
► pp. 139–158

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Sign making in dialogue

 | University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Published online: 26 April 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00009.dun
Abstract
This paper investigates how communicating participants dialogically make and remake signs, and how they rely on the reflexivity of language in order to talk about linguistic experience of relevance to the communication situation they are currently involved in. It addresses the metalinguistic strategies and techniques participants employ in order to deal with linguistic indeterminacy, given that, as presumed by integrational linguistics, contextualization is individual and unique. By way of illustration a transcript of a lively discussion is provided in which the participants demonstrate some of these techniques with the result that they end up effectively contextualizing ‘together apart’.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Conditions for interpersonal communication
    • 2.1The question of communicational success
  • 3.The crown prince of Denmark is a shoe
  • 4.This is my sign – See for yourself!
  • Notes
  • References
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