François Cooren
List of John Benjamins publications in which François Cooren is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127
Book series
Dialogic Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and international disputes, each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication… read more[Dialogue Studies, 30] 2018. xiv, 286 pp.
Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
(Re)presentations and Dialogue
Edited by François Cooren and Alain Létourneau
This edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as representation, 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues,… read more[Dialogue Studies, 16] 2012. xv, 348 pp.
Dialogue and Representation
Edited by Alain Létourneau and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 2:1 (2012) vi, 189 pp.
Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation and ventriloquism
François Cooren
What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as “doing things with… read more[Dialogue Studies, 6] 2010. xvi, 206 pp.
The Organizing Property of Communication
François Cooren
What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 65] 2000. xvi, 272 pp.
2026 To communicate is to make communicate: Interaction and ventriloquation in an instant messaging service Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 74–99 | Article
What happens when people interact through the exchange of texts in messaging software applications? Through these applications, people exchange messages that present them as doing certain things: informing, asking something, reassuring, joking, etc. These messages therefore act on people’s… read more
2023 A critique of the adjacency pair dogma: The organization of interaction and the emergence of organized forms from basic organizing units Practices of Dialogue, Dialogues in Practice, Létourneau, Alain, Geneviève Boivin and Nicolas Bencherki (eds.), pp. 155–180 | Article
Drawing inspiration from key authors such as Weick, Taylor and Van Every, Greimas, Goffman, Sbisà, and Tsui, we propose to explore what we call the basic organizing unit, in other words, the minimal form that a sequence of action must take in order to claim a certain degree of organizationality.… read more
2020 Reconciling dialogue and propagation: A ventriloquial inquiry Dialogue and Ways of Relating, Chen, Huey-Rong (ed.), pp. 9–28 | Article
Dialoguing is about co-orienting to various elements of a situation, that propagate themselves in what people say and do. In other words, each time people talk about an element of a situation, whether it is the weather, the economy, or the declaration of a presidential candidate, it is, by… read more
2018 Introduction Dialogic Ethics, Arnett, Ronald C. and François Cooren (eds.), pp. ix–xiv | Introduction
2018 Review of Weigand (2017): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue Language and Dialogue 8:3, pp. 468–482 | Review article
2017 Introduction Dialogue and Ethics, Arnett, Ronald C. and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Introduction
2017 Analyzing online suicide prevention chats: A communicative constitutive approach Dialogue and Ethics, Arnett, Ronald C. and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 3–25 | Article
In this article, we propose to mobilize a communicative constitutive approach to analyze sessions that took place in the context of online suicide prevention chats in France. By analyzing the detail of a specific excerpt, we propose, more precisely, to draw a portrait of various figures that… read more
2012 Introduction (Re)presentations and Dialogue, Cooren, François and Alain Létourneau (eds.), pp. ix–xvi | Article
2012 Dialogue and representation: A plurality of approaches Dialogue and Representation, Létourneau, Alain and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2010 For a constitutive pragmatics: Obama, Médecins Sans Frontières and the measuring stick Pragmatics and Society 1:1, pp. 9–31 | Article
This paper proposes to explore the mechanisms by which speaking, writing and, more generally, interacting pragmatically contribute to the mode of being and acting of social forms, whether these forms be identities, relations or collectives. Such an approach to pragmatics, which we propose to call… read more
2008 The selection of agency as a rhetorical device: Opening up the scene of dialogue through ventriloquism Dialogue and Rhetoric, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 23–37 | Article
I propose to open up the dialogic scene by showing that a dialogue is never just about discourse and language. It is also about facts, principles, passions, values, ideologies, collectives, worldviews, etc. that can (or cannot) make a difference, i.e., do something, in a given interaction.… read more
2004 Review of Kecskes (2003): Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2 Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1, pp. 177–181 | Review
2001 Acting and organizing: How speech acts structure organizational interactions Concepts and Transformation 6:3, pp. 275–293 | Article
We illustrate the mechanisms by which speech acts structure organizational interactions. First, a comparison is established between what Greimas (1987) calls “narrative schemata” and what I propose to call “organizational schemata.” It is shown that both syntagmatic structures are organized into… read more