Language as Dialogue

From rules to principles of probability

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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 substantially shaped the way in which people look at language today.
This book traces Weigand’s linguistic career from its beginning to today and comprises a selection of articles which take the reader on a vivid and fascinating journey through the most important stages of her theorizing. The initial stage when a model of communicative competence was developed is followed by a gradual transition period which finally resulted in the theory of the dialogic action game as a mixed game or the Mixed Game Model. The articles cover a wide range of linguistic topics including, among others, speech act theory, lexical semantics, utterance grammar, emotions, the media, rhetoric and institutional communication. Editorial introductions give further information on the origin and theoretical background of the articles included.
[Dialogue Studies, 5] 2009.  viii, 410 pp.
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“In a distinguished career of research, teaching and writing, Edda Weigand has covered a wider range of topics than most of us. Versed in a variety of disciplines and always open to new ideas, she has developed her Mixed Game Model, the view that only the mind engaged in dialogue can enrich reflection. It has guided her in ground-breaking studies which aim to integrate the cognitive and the discourse approach and to reconcile the social nature of communication with its biological foundations. This book will certainly inspire its readers to rethink language.”
“It is extremely interesting, even fascinating to follow the consistent progress of the scholarly thoughts of professor Edda Weigand, as presented in the three parts of the present selection of her contributions. She ranks among those linguists for whom ‘language’ is not a rigid system of strict rules and items, but is grasped as a vivid organism, a complex (holistic) communicative system used by humans in real-life settings, in turn embedded in the sociobiological matrix (cf. her Mixed Game Model). From such a demanding background, all her points of scientific interest, followed by their elaboration in a number of deep analyses, concepts or projects, may be derived; namely: language as dialogue, dialogic action games, the principle of ‘competence-in-performance’ (happily bridging the problematic gap between the two), emotions in dialogue interaction, the postulate of a sociobiology of language (showing her interdisciplinary orientation). Her work is based on the analysis of concrete, vivid language material (often with contrastive comparisons with other languages) and consequently takes account of language users in particular communicative domains and interactive situations (argumentation, business, the media). The title of the final contribution in the present selection “The argumentative power of words or how to move people’s minds with words” appears indicative of Weigand’s appreciation of the phenomenon ‘language’.”
Language as Dialogue is a book with a strong voice. It is Edda Weigand's voice, arguing for a decisively different understanding of language. [...] Edda Weigand's book is inspiring, it is a rich resource to think seriously about the dialogicality of language.”
“Edda Weigand has an exceptionally strong feel for the many-sidedness of what actually goes on when language is being used. On the one hand, people are social beings, who cultivate received ways of doing things. On the other hand, they are individuals, with their own goals. On the one hand, these individual goals are partly a matter of biology. On the other hand, biological imperatives are tempered by ethical considerations – politeness, for instance, can involve an element of positive respect for the human other. On the one hand, people say or write what is important to them personally. On the other hand, their utterances have addressivity – so much so, that any process of communication is in principle dialogical, even when apparently in the form of a monologue. On the one hand, words have meanings, and are combined into meaningful utterances, and utterances into meaningful texts. On the other hand, meaning is never more than just one ingredient in an interchange, and is context-specific and even negotiable, whether intra- or interculturally. Over the years, Weigand’s theorizing has made all such paradoxes, and their far-reaching consequences, ever more boldly explicit. And that is why her work can appeal to linguists, psychologists, sociologists, biologists and humanists – not least literary scholars – from so many different backgrounds.”
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2023. Variations of polyphony in blogs. Language and Dialogue 13:1  pp. 103 ff. DOI logo
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2023. Exploring dialogue and culture. Language and Dialogue 13:3  pp. 301 ff. DOI logo
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2022. Dialogic hypertextuality. Language and Dialogue 12:2  pp. 197 ff. DOI logo
Okulska, Urszula
2022. Discourse approaches to the study of dialogue and culture(s). Language and Dialogue 12:2  pp. 169 ff. DOI logo
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2022. Posicionamiento y dialogicidad en la escritura académica y profesional. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 90  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Castor, Theresa R.
2021. Dialogic matters. Language and Dialogue 11:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Dolata-Zaród, Anna
2021. Text operators as dialogical mechanisms in judgments of the French Court of Cassation. Language and Dialogue 11:2  pp. 173 ff. DOI logo
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2021. “What I advise you to do is…”. Language and Dialogue 11:3  pp. 405 ff. DOI logo
He, Zhongqing
2021.  From pragmatics to dialogue . Intercultural Pragmatics 18:5  pp. 687 ff. DOI logo
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2023. Edda Weigand and Istvan Kecskés: From Pragmatics to Dialogue . Intercultural Pragmatics 20:2  pp. 213 ff. DOI logo
Pileri, Anna
2021. Chapter 6. Dialogicity in diapers. In Language and Social Interaction at Home and School [Dialogue Studies, 32],  pp. 221 ff. DOI logo
Gonzalez Rodriguez, Milton Fernando
2020. Compliment responses in Icelandic. Language and Dialogue 10:2  pp. 194 ff. DOI logo
Kayam, Orly
2020. Straight to the people. Language and Dialogue 10:2  pp. 149 ff. DOI logo
Kayam, Orly
2023. Trump’s Rhetorical Way to Presidency. In U.S. Democracy in Danger [Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice, ],  pp. 277 ff. DOI logo
Caronia, Letizia & Franca Orletti
2019. The agency of language in institutional talk. Language and Dialogue 9:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Cañada, Maria Dolors & Carmen López-Ferrero
2019. Oral discourse competence-in-performance. Language and Dialogue 9:2  pp. 236 ff. DOI logo
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2019. How do Saudis complain?. Language and Dialogue 9:2  pp. 264 ff. DOI logo
Adams, Jennifer L.
2018. Moving beyond pragmatics. In From Pragmatics to Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 31],  pp. 45 ff. DOI logo
Bondi, Marina
2018. Blogs as interwoven polylogues. Language and Dialogue 8:1  pp. 43 ff. DOI logo
Bondi, Marina
2018. Dialogicity in written language use. In From Pragmatics to Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 31],  pp. 137 ff. DOI logo
Caronia, Letizia
2018. Research interview as social interaction. In From Pragmatics to Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 31],  pp. 83 ff. DOI logo
Caronia, Letizia
2021. Language, culture and social interaction. In Language and Social Interaction at Home and School [Dialogue Studies, 32],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Cooren, François
2018. Review of Weigand (2017): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue. Language and Dialogue 8:3  pp. 468 ff. DOI logo
El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam
2018. Saying “Yes” and “No” to requests. Language and Dialogue 8:2  pp. 235 ff. DOI logo
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Grein, Marion
2018. Foreign language teaching – Integrationism vs. MGM. Language and Dialogue 8:1  pp. 5 ff. DOI logo
Grein, Marion
2018. Progress in language teaching. In From Pragmatics to Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 31],  pp. 61 ff. DOI logo
Grein, Marion
2020. Cross-linguistic influence and the MGM. Language and Dialogue 10:3  pp. 369 ff. DOI logo
Grein, Marion
2024. Language usage in the field of health care. Language and Dialogue DOI logo
Hoinărescu, Liliana
2018. Definition as an argumentative strategy in parliamentary discourse. Language and Dialogue 8:2  pp. 209 ff. DOI logo
Jones, Peter E.
2018. Integrationist reflections on the place of dialogue in our communicational universe. Language and Dialogue 8:1  pp. 118 ff. DOI logo
Létourneau, Alain
2018. Differing versions of dialogic aptitude. In Dialogic Ethics [Dialogue Studies, 30],  pp. 127 ff. DOI logo
Săftoiu, Răzvan & Adrian Toader
2018. The persuasive use of pronouns in action games of election campaigns. Language and Dialogue 8:1  pp. 21 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda & Istvan Kecskes
2018. Introduction. In From Pragmatics to Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 31],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Agyekum, Kofi
2017. The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers. Language and Dialogue 7:3  pp. 360 ff. DOI logo
Agyekum, Kofi
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2017. Gil-Salom & Soler-Monreal, eds. (2014). Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres. English Text Construction 10:1  pp. 165 ff. DOI logo
Capone, Alessandro
2016. Reporting Non-serious Speech. In The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 8],  pp. 121 ff. DOI logo
Capone, Alessandro
2016. Simple Sentences, Substitution and Embedding Explicatures (The Case of Implicit Indirect Reports). In The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 8],  pp. 321 ff. DOI logo
Capone, Alessandro
2016. Indirect Reports as Language Games. In The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 8],  pp. 73 ff. DOI logo
Capone, Alessandro
2018. Embedding explicatures in implicit indirect reports: simple sentences, and substitution failure cases. In Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 18],  pp. 97 ff. DOI logo
Hou, Junping, Marjolijn Verspoor & Hanneke Loerts
2016. An exploratory study into the dynamics of Chinese L2 writing development. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 5:1  pp. 65 ff. DOI logo
Livnat, Zohar & Beverly A. Lewin
2016. The interpersonal strand of political speech. Language and Dialogue 6:2  pp. 275 ff. DOI logo
Vasilescu, Andra
2016. Towards a “Theory of Everything” in Human Communication. In Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 9],  pp. 305 ff. DOI logo
Vasilescu, Andra
2023. Yes(Rom.Da). Usages and functions in L2 proficiency examinations. Language and Dialogue 13:3  pp. 427 ff. DOI logo
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2016. Literature Review. In Theme and Thematic Progression in Chinese College Students’ English Essays,  pp. 9 ff. DOI logo
Black, Laura W.
2015. Dialogue. In The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction,  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Colomina-Almiñana, Juan J.
2015. Disagreement and the speaker’s point of view. Language and Dialogue 5:2  pp. 224 ff. DOI logo
Lam, Phoenix W.Y.
Purmohammad, Mehdi
2015. Linguistic alignment in L1–L2 dialogue. Language and Dialogue 5:2  pp. 312 ff. DOI logo
Santamaría-García, Carmen
2015. Review of Gil-Salom & Soler-Monreal (2014): Dialogicity in written specialised genres. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:2  pp. 647 ff. DOI logo
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2014. Exploring language as the “in-between”. Theory & Psychology 24:4  pp. 524 ff. DOI logo
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2014. The need for a dialogical science. In The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology,  pp. 449 ff. DOI logo
Bertau, Marie-Cécile
2014. Introduction: The self within the space–time of language performance. Theory & Psychology 24:4  pp. 433 ff. DOI logo
Bertau, Marie-Cécile
2014. On displacement. Theory & Psychology 24:4  pp. 442 ff. DOI logo
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2015. Sprache: öffentliche Praxis im Medium des Dritten. In Praxis denken,  pp. 81 ff. DOI logo
Feller, Sebastian
2014. Uncertainty as integrated part of meaning and understanding. In Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts [Dialogue Studies, 25],  pp. 99 ff. DOI logo
Flowerdew, John
2014. Foreword. In Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres [Dialogue Studies, 23],  pp. ix ff. DOI logo
Heinze, Ulrich
2014. Pictorial body metaphors in Japanese advertising. Language and Dialogue 4:3  pp. 425 ff. DOI logo
Lejeune, Guillaume
2014. Early Romantic hopes of dialogue. In Literature as Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 22],  pp. 251 ff. DOI logo
Linell, Per
2014. Interactivities, intersubjectivities and language. Language and Dialogue 4:2  pp. 165 ff. DOI logo
Linell, Per
2017. Dialogue, dialogicality and interactivity. Language and Dialogue 7:3  pp. 301 ff. DOI logo
Soler-Monreal, Carmen & Luz Gil-Salom
2014. Chapter 1. Academic voices and claims. In Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres [Dialogue Studies, 23],  pp. 23 ff. DOI logo
Suau-Jiménez, Francisca
2014. Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality. In Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres [Dialogue Studies, 23],  pp. 137 ff. DOI logo
Yus, Francisco
2014. Chapter 7. Interactions with readers through online specialised genres. In Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres [Dialogue Studies, 23],  pp. 189 ff. DOI logo
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2011. Paradigm changes in linguistics: from reductionism to holism. Language Sciences 33:4  pp. 544 ff. DOI logo
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2015. Persuasion or the integration of grammar and rhetoric. In Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 26],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda
2015. Dialogue in the stream of life. Language and Dialogue 5:2  pp. 197 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda
2016. How to verify a theory of dialogue. Language and Dialogue 6:3  pp. 349 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda
2017. IADA history. Language and Dialogue 7:1  pp. 63 ff. DOI logo
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Weigand, Edda
2018. The theory myth. Language and Dialogue 8:2  pp. 289 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda
2019. Dialogue and Artificial Intelligence. Language and Dialogue 9:2  pp. 294 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda
2021. Dialogue. Language and Dialogue 11:3  pp. 457 ff. DOI logo
Weigand, Edda
2021. Language and dialogue in philosophy and science. Intercultural Pragmatics 18:4  pp. 533 ff. DOI logo
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2023. Principles of New Science. Language and Dialogue 13:1  pp. 26 ff. DOI logo

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Communication Studies

Communication Studies

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Philosophy

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CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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