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Dialogue in institutional settings
Edited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia
[Language and Dialogue 9:1] 2019
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Introduction

The agency of language in institutional talk

An introduction

| University of Bologna (Italy)
| University of Roma 3 (Italy)

This article, introducing the Special Issue, investigates the notion of “agency of language” and its historical roots: the phenomenological emphasis on the social actors’ role in constituting their Life-World. It reconstructs the genesis – at the beginning of the 20th century – of two ideas that still nourish contemporary interactional and pragmatic views of language: language meaning relies on use, language is a tool to perform activities. Focusing on dialogue in institutional settings, it illustrates how cultures, social orders, and moral horizons are talked-into-being and shaped through the activities performed in institutional talk. It also presents the contributions in the Special Issue that address the co-constitutive relationship between language, interaction, and culture from different disciplinary perspectives as well as methodological approaches.

Keywords: agency of language, institutional talk, interactional (socio)linguistics, phenomenology, pragmatics
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Building the social: The legacy of phenomenology on the study of everyday life
  • 3.The agency of language: The inner performativity of language use
  • 4.Broadening the field: From talk-in-interaction to multimodality
  • 5.Dialogue and the micro-macro link
  • 6.Talk in institutional contexts
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 5 July 2019
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