Full Description
Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue. This edited collection of twelve original studies contributes to a broad comprehension of dialogue in two general contexts: personal interactions among friends and family; and public speech, such as political debates, medical interviews, court translations and service encounters. The studies, written by authors from Canada, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, the United States and Venezuela, present an in-depth look at issues and elements of dialogue such as irony, narrativity, discourse markers, coherence, conflict and expectations. Background research on dialogue grounds the articles in such areas as discourse analysis, pragmatics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and linguistics. The book will prove useful to those who study conversational interaction, pragmatics, and discourse analysis as applied to various functions and contexts, and it will be of particular interest to researchers and students of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, communications and education.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Koike, Dale); 2. 1. A continuum of approaches to dialogue (by Rodriguez-Alfano, Lidia); 3. Part I. Dialogue in interpersonal contexts of informal conversation; 4. 2. Dialogues within oral narratives: Functions and forms (by Camargo Fernandez, Laura); 5. 3. Being polite through irony (by Padilla Garcia, Xose A.); 6. 4. Humor in verbal irony (by Kalbermatten, Maria Isabel); 7. 5. Evaluation, interpersonal meaning and co-construction in oral narratives by Mexican adolescents (by Fonte, Irene); 8. 6. The truth about verdad: Its discursive uses and its modal-epistemic value (by Esteban Hernandez, Jose); 9. 7. Backchannels as a realization of interaction: Some uses of mm and mhm in Spanish (by Bravo Cladera, Nadezhda); 10. Part II. Dialogue in public, professional, and educational contexts; 11. 8. Dialogue in the dynamics of political practice (by Bolivar, Adriana); 12. 9. Conflict resolution: Mexican and Spanish strategies of repair (by Czerwionka, Lori); 13. 10. A discourse analysis of Alzheimer-type dementia in personal conversations (by Valles-Gonzalez, Beatriz); 14. 11. Triadic discourse: Interpreter-mediated dialogue (by Hensey, Fritz G.); 15. 12. Behind L2 pragmatics: The role of emerging expectations (by Koike, Dale); 16. Conclusions and implications of studies that approach dialogue in its complexity (by Koike, Dale); 17. References; 18. General index; 19. List of contributors
