Review article published In: Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse
Edited by Urszula Okulska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska
[Language and Dialogue 12:2] 2022
► pp. 169–196
Introduction
Discourse approaches to the study of dialogue and culture(s)
Published online: 8 August 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00121.int
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00121.int
Abstract
As an Introduction to the present issue, this article explores the workings of discourse and dialogue in
communicating unity and diversity through language in vast social and cultural contexts. In what
follows, discourse analysis is presented as a dialogue-oriented field that arose at the crossroads of linguistics and social
sciences to overcome the limitations of traditional, autonomous linguistics. The dialogic profile of discourse analysis is
demonstrated along three exploratory vectors that recognise dialogism as an inseparable criterion in the study of discourse.
Accordingly, it will be shown that dialogicity is what lies at the core of discourse organization, discourse practice and
discourse worlds. The discussion of the dialogic provenance and orientation of discourse (analysis) is closed by the volume
presentation.
Keywords: discourse analysis, dialogue analysis, language use, action, meaning, context, unity, diversity
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Dialogicity of discourse organization
- 3.Dialogicity of discourse practice
- 4.Dialogicity of discourse worlds
- 5.Presentation of the issue
- Note
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