Spaces of Polyphony

Editors

Clara Ubaldina Lorda | Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Patrick Zabalbeascoa | Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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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 chorus of the contributors. From a shared starting point of discourse analysis and inspiration from Bakhtin, the various authors span from East to West, from Moscow to Texas, from Romania and Czech Republic to Mexico. They look into all ages, starting from early childhood, and many walks of life, ranging from casual chatting among relatives to parliamentary speeches and TV shows, including formal education, literary inner monologue and translation. Irony, humour and self-awareness are recurrent themes. The array of voices and dialogism studied in this book is such that it even includes the silent (silenced) voices of people forced to express their heritage by weaving their discourse.

[Dialogue Studies, 15] 2012. vii, 299 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.15

Table of Contents

Introduction

Clara Ubaldina Lorda and Patrick Zabalbeascoa | pp. 1–8

Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations

Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue

Robert E. Sanders | pp. 11–24

Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints

Maria Christodoulidou | pp. 25–42

Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices: Conversational humour as a polyphonic phenomenon

Béatrice Priego-Valverde | pp. 43–54

Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning

Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisition

Aliyah Morgenstern | pp. 57–72

Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialogues

Claudio Baraldi | pp. 73–86

Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices

Federico Farini | pp. 87–100

Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom

Rachel Elizabeth Showstack | pp. 101–114

Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics

Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogue

Daciana Vlad | pp. 117–128

Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers

Maria Sivenkova | pp. 129–142

Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-show

Martin Havlík | pp. 143–160

Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show

Svĕtla Čmejrková and Jana Hoffmannová | pp. 161–172

Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality

Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markers

Margareta Manu Magda | pp. 175–188

Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatability

Ana Ene | pp. 189–204

Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textiles

Josefina Anaya | pp. 205–222

Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse

Chapter 15. “Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people”: Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O’Brien’s comic writing

Flore Coulouma | pp. 225–236

Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourse

Emilia Afana Parpala | pp. 237–250

Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties

Carmen Popescu | pp. 251–264

Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues

Ilaria Riccioni and Andrzej Zuczkowski | pp. 265–278

General references | pp. 279–296

Index | pp. 297–300

“The lively dialogism and colorful array of voices in this book make it an exciting and memorable ‘polyphonic journey’. It represents a valuable resource for students and scholars of dialogue analysis, literary analysis, linguistics and intercultural communication who seek to broaden their knowledge of the field beyond their specialization.”

Guofeng Wang, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies Vol. 16:5 (2014)

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