基本説明
The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction.
Full Description
The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called 'language instinct debate' between nativists and empiricists and introduces a mediating position that regards language and dialogue as determined by both human nature and culture. This sets the framework for the contributions of Part II which propose varying theoretical positions on how to address the ways in which culture influences dialogue. Part III presents more empirically oriented studies which demonstrate the interaction of components in the 'mixed game' and focus, in particular, on specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication.
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Language, biology and culture: The crucial debate; 3. Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture and why it shouldn't (by Sampson, Geoffrey); 4. The sociobiology of language (by Weigand, Edda); 5. Part II. Theoretical positions; 6. Some general thoughts about linguistic typology and dialogue linguistics (by Bisang, Walter); 7. Intercultural dialogue and academic discourse (by Cmejrkova, Svetla); 8. The speech act of refusals within the minimal action game: A comparative study of German and Japanese (by Grein, Marion); 9. Gestural regulators in French, Japanese and American English dialogues (by Nash, Caroline E.); 10. Quantity scales towards culture-specific profiles of discourse norms (by Weizman, Elda); 11. Part III. Empirically oriented studies of the 'mixed game': Specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication; 12. Dialogue interpreting as intercultural mediation: An analysis in health care multicultural settings (by Baraldi, Claudio); 13. Cultural differences in the speech act of greeting (by Feller, Sebastian); 14. Refusals and politeness in directive action games: Cultural differences between Korean and German (by Cho, Yongkil); 15. How diplomatic can a language be? The unwritten rules in a language: An analysis of spoken Sinhala (by Premawardhena, Neelakshi Chandrasena); 16. Cultural values and their hierarchies in everyday discourse (by Shilikhina, Ksenia); 17. Cultural and contextual constraints in communication (by Walrod, Michael R.); 18. General index; 19. List of contributors
