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Language and Dialogue
Vol. 8:2 (2018) ► pp.306–327
Discussion articles

Dialogism is an integrationism

Reply to Peter Jones

 | University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
In Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018), Peter Jones wrote a critical article dealing with dialogical theory in the context of language and communication. His article covered several theoretical and methodological frameworks dealing with concepts of dialogue, here interpreted from the point-of-view of Roy Harris’s integrationism. Edda Weigand (this issue) has written a comprehensive discussion article which mainly focuses on Pablé (2018) and Orman (2018) as well as Harris’s original work. In my present response to Jones I deal almost exclusively with my own version of “extended dialogism”, which was included among his targets. I argue that extended dialogism is actually a form of moderate integrationism. I demonstrate that Jones’s contribution has several interesting points, but that it also contains a number of misguided interpretations.
Keywords: dialogue, dialogism, integrationism, verbal interaction, sense-making, communication
Article outline
  • 1.Outline
  • 2.Dialogue and interaction, dialogicality and sense-making
  • 3.Solo activities as dialogical
  • 4.More on the role of language
  • 5.Words
  • 6.The written language bias in linguistics (WLB)
  • 7.The metaphor of dialogue
  • 8.The boundaries of dialogism (and integrationism?)
  • 9.Variants of dialogism and integrationism
  • 10.Extreme integrationism as a sect
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 October 2018
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