When Dialogue Fails
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022)
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[Language and Dialogue, 12:1] 2022. v, 168 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 March 2022
Published online on 7 March 2022
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: When dialogue fails (and why)Anja Müller-Wood | pp. 1–11
- Lunfardo and political (dis)agreements in the public spacePatricia Gubitosi & Irina Lifszyc | pp. 12–34
- The parasites of language: “President Trump, please liberate Hong Kong”Aubrey Tang | pp. 35–53
- The collapse of dialogue, consent, and the controversy over Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person”Natalie Roxburgh | pp. 54–71
- Letters to nowhere: Failures of dialogue in Edwidge Danticat’s “Children of the Sea” and Aleksandar Hemon’s “A Coin”Una Tanović | pp. 72–90
- “Decorum will be strictly observed”: Generic tensions and failed dialogue in Martin Amis’s London TrilogyPatrick Gill | pp. 91–109
- Unspoken assumptions, deep holes and boundless expectations: The dialogical tensions in teaching short storiesAgnes Whitfield | pp. 110–129
- Dialogue and speech centricity in the public sphereLisbeth Lipari | pp. 130–149
- Parity lost: Polyphony, silence, and syncretism between traditional Hobongan and modern cultural practicesMarla Perkins | pp. 150–168
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