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Article published In: Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
[Language and Dialogue 7:1] 2017
► pp. 63–79

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IADA history

The unity of dialogue and its multiple faces

 | University of Münster (Germany)
Published online: 29 June 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.7.1.05wei
Abstract
IADA History not only refers to the series of conferences and workshops which have been organized since the foundation of the Association but also to the discussions about a unified concept of dialogue which accompanied IADA’s activities during the last three decades. On the one hand, there is the basic question of what constitutes dialogue, while on the other hand there are multiple approaches which claim to be acknowledged as dialogic approaches. If we do not want to accept the plurality of models in the sense of ‘anything goes’ we need to address the difficult issue of how far individual models can contribute to an investigation of dialogue as a complex whole.
Article outline
  • 1.The idea of dialogue and the foundation of the Association
  • 2.The unity of dialogue dividing up into multiple faces
  • 3.The interdisciplinary nature of dialogue
  • 4.Methodological differences
    • 4.1Speech act theory and dialogue
    • 4.2Conventions versus principles of probability
    • 4.3Action versus transfer of information
    • 4.4Cooperation on common ground versus reaching out for power
    • 4.5Dialogue as relationship
    • 4.6Separating parts or integrating components of dialogue
    • 4.7The issue of empirical ‘data’
    • 4.8The role of context
  • 5.Looking for the point of the dialogic turn
  • 6.Towards the unity of dialogue
  • References
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