SubjectsLinguistics / Dialogue studies
Book series
ISSN 1875-1792
Journal
Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.
Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation, authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four… read more[Argumentation in Context, 23] 2026. x, 407 pp.
Principles of New Science: Dialogue in the stream of life
Edda Weigand
This book looks beyond the limit of certainty which has long been taken as a defining characteristic of science. Beyond certainty lies complexity. How can complexity be addressed in the framework of science? What can science of complexity mean? The first and basic principle is that we recognize… read more
Dialogicity in Framing Environmental Discourse
Edited by Marina Bondi and Judith Turnbull
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 15:1 (2025) v, 201 pp.
Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices
Edited by Anna Tereszkiewicz and Magdalena Szczyrbak
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 14:2 (2024) vi, 200 pp.
(Inter)Cultural Dialogues
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:3 (2023) v, 174 pp.
Practices of Dialogue, Dialogues in Practice
Edited by Alain Létourneau, Geneviève Boivin and Nicolas Bencherki
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:2 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse
Edited by Urszula Okulska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:2 (2022) v, 163 pp.
When Dialogue Fails
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022) v, 168 pp.
Dialogic Matters: Interrelating Dialogue, the Material, and Social Change
Edited by Theresa Castor
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 11:1 (2021) v, 170 pp.
Language and Social Interaction at Home and School
Edited by Letizia Caronia
As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is “the architecture of intersubjectivity”: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds. The volume advances and empirically illustrates the role of talk-in-interaction in displaying, ratifying, creating yet… read more[Dialogue Studies, 32] 2021. vi, 385 pp.
Dialogue and Ways of Relating
Edited by Huey-Rong Chen
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 10:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Dialogue in institutional settings
Edited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 9:1 (2019) v, 190 pp.
Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time: Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism
Dima Mohammed
When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic’s position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence, but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical… read more[Argumentation in Context, 15] 2018. xi, 162 pp.
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.
From Pragmatics to Dialogue
Edited by Edda Weigand and István Kecskés
This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two ‘circles’ which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object, ‘language use’. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however… read more[Dialogue Studies, 31] 2018. v, 222 pp.
Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives
Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone
Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and… read more[Argumentation in Context, 10] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
Dialogue across Media
Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas
With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters,… read more[Dialogue Studies, 28] 2017. ix, 296 pp.
Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing
Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli and Ilaria Riccioni
This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and… read more[Dialogue Studies, 29] 2017. xiii, 311 pp.
Writing in interaction
Edited by Lorenza Mondada
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 6:1 (2016) v, 204 pp.
Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 5:1 (2015) v, 193 pp.
Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities
Edited by Dale Koike and Carl S. Blyth
Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the ‘community’, that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.g. geographical location, a common goal, a search for… read more[Dialogue Studies, 27] 2015. vi, 314 pp.
Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda
Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that – while involved in a dialogue – they listen, observe, discuss, reason, evaluate and conclude; in other words, speakers are no longer interested in defeating… read more[Dialogue Studies, 26] 2015. xiv, 275 pp.
Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue
Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014) v, 162 pp.
Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts
Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari
This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations with modality, subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, epistemicity, evidentiality, hedging, mitigation… read more[Dialogue Studies, 25] 2014. vii, 413 pp.
Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres
Edited by Luz Gil-Salom and Carmen Soler-Monreal
Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian. The chapters in the present… read more[Dialogue Studies, 23] 2014. xvi, 227 pp.
Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology
Edited by Sebastian Feller and Ilker Yengin
Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology contains a collection of new articles on the relationship of learning, dialog and technology. The articles combine different views of dialogic learning stemming from a multiplicity of discipline backgrounds… read more[Dialogue Studies, 24] 2014. xviii, 250 pp.
Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated
Edited by Roger D. Sell
How is it that some texts achieve the status of literature? Partly, at least, because the relationship they allow between their writers and the people who respond to them is fundamentally egalitarian. This is the insight explored by members of the Åbo literary communication network, who in this new… read more[Dialogue Studies, 22] 2014. xv, 274 pp.
Approaches to Slavic Interaction
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta
This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.
The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness
Edited by Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren
Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each other’s human autonomy?… read more[Dialogue Studies, 19] 2013. xii, 271 pp.
Literary Linguistics
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 3:1 (2013) v, 163 pp.
Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani
This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen… read more[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 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.
Dialogue in Politics
Edited by Lawrence N. Berlin and Anita Fetzer
The volume considers politics as cooperative group action and takes the position that forms of government can be posited on a continuum with endpoints where governance is shared, and where hegemony dictates, ranging from politics as interaction to politics as imposition. Similarly, dialogue and… read more[Dialogue Studies, 18] 2012. vii, 313 pp.
Dialogue, Science and Academic Writing
Zohar Livnat
This book investigates the dialogic nature of research articles from the perspective of discourse analysis, based on theories of dialogicity. It proposes a theoretical and applied framework for the understanding and exploration of scientific dialogicity. Focusing on some dialogic components, among… read more[Dialogue Studies, 13] 2012. vi, 216 pp.
Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present
Edited by Roger D. Sell
The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell… read more[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp.
Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Stanca Măda and Răzvan Săftoiu
Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain… read more[Dialogue Studies, 17] 2012. vi, 284 pp.
Spaces of Polyphony
Edited by Clara Ubaldina Lorda and Patrick Zabalbeascoa
Spaces of Polyphony covers a lot of ground. It echoes the voices of researchers and their informants from many different places and backgrounds. Among the variety of languages under study and methodological approaches there is also a common ground and narrative thread underpinning the polyphonic… read more[Dialogue Studies, 15] 2012. vii, 299 pp.
Argumentation in Dispute Mediation: A reasonable way to handle conflict
Sara Greco
The context of mediation immediately highlights the importance of argumentation as a means to reasonably handle conflict. Argumentation in dispute mediation tackles this topic providing both theoretical insights and detailed empirical argumentative analysis. Its goal is twofold: to explore… read more[Argumentation in Context, 3] 2011. xii, 291 pp.
Communicational Criticism: Studies in literature as dialogue
Roger D. Sell
Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now suggests that when so-called literary texts stand the test of time and appeal to a large and heterogeneous circle of admirers, this is because they are… read more[Dialogue Studies, 11] 2011. xi, 392 pp.
Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution
Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Victor D. Boantza
From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and… read more[Controversies, 11] 2011. vi, 287 pp.
The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge
Louise Phillips
It has become commonplace to employ dialogue-based approaches in producing and communicating knowledge in diverse fields. Here, “dialogue” has become a buzzword that promises democratic, participatory processes of mutual learning and knowledge co-production. But what does “dialogue” actually entail… read more[Dialogue Studies, 12] 2011. x, 198 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.
Authoring the Dialogic Self: Gender, agency and language practices
Gergana Vitanova
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants.… read more[Dialogue Studies, 8] 2010. vi, 175 pp.
Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts
Edited by Dale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano
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… read more[Dialogue Studies, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.
Dialogue – The Mixed Game
Edda Weigand
The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests… read more
Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use
Sebastian Feller
Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use addresses a number of central issues in the field of lexical semantics. Starting off from an action-theoretical view of communication meaning is defined as something that speakers do in dialogic language use. Meaning as ‘meaning-in-use’ opens up a new… read more[Dialogue Studies, 9] 2010. vii, 184 pp.
Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse: Extending the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation
Frans H. van Eemeren
In Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Frans H. van Eemeren brings together the dialectical and the rhetorical dimensions of argumentation by introducing the concept of strategic maneuvering. Strategic maneuvering refers to the arguer’s continual efforts to reconcile aiming for… read more[Argumentation in Context, 2] 2010. xii, 308 pp.
Dialogue in Intercultural Communities: From an educational point of view
Edited by Claudio Baraldi
This book explores the meanings of educational interactions which aim to promote peace and positive relationships. This analysis is based on theories of communication and active participation in education systems, in particular in intercultural settings. The book investigates the cultural… read more[Dialogue Studies, 4] 2009. viii, 277 pp.
Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability
Edda Weigand
With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus… read more
Dialogue and Rhetoric
Edited by Edda Weigand
The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes… read more[Dialogue Studies, 2] 2008. xiv, 316 pp.
Positioning in Media Dialogue: Negotiating roles in the news interview
Elda Weizman
This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and… read more[Dialogue Studies, 3] 2008. xiv, 208 pp.
Dialogue and Culture
Edited by Marion Grein and Edda Weigand
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… read more[Dialogue Studies, 1] 2007. xii, 262 pp.