Rethinking Communicative Interaction
New interdisciplinary horizons
Editor
This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory, computational neuroscience, sociology of communication, second language pragmatics, ergonomic interaction theory and computer-mediated interaction studies. In so doing, it sets out to establish a new research agenda in which communication science is understood as a human-social science par excellence. This collection of fifteen essays by seventeen scholars from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK will be of interest to scholars and students in all of the above fields.
The editor, Colin B. Grant, is Reader in Modern Languages in the School of Management and Languages, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, where he runs the interdisciplinary social communication science research group. He is author of Literary Communication from Consensus to Rupture (1995), Functions and Fictions of Communication (2000) and chief editor of Language-Meaning-Social Construction (2001).
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 116] 2003. viii, 330 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | p. vii
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Introduction: Rethinking communicative interaction: An interdisciplinary programmeColin B. Grant | pp. 1–26
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Part I: Communicating the self
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Dialogicality as an ontology of humanityIvana Marková | pp. 29–51
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The subject as dialogical fictionNicholas Davey | pp. 53–67
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Language, communication and the development of the selfRenato Proietti | pp. 69–85
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Addressing oneself as another: Dialogue and the self in Habermas and ButlerHenderikus J. Stam | pp. 87–100
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Complexities of self and social communicationColin B. Grant | pp. 101–125
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Part II: Constructing communication
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Histories and discourses: An integrated approach to communication scienceSiegfried J. Schmidt | pp. 129–144
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Autonomy, self-reference and contingency in computational neuroscienceBernd Porr and Florentin Wörgötter | pp. 145–161
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Interaction versus action and Luhmann’s sociology of communicationLoet Leydesdorff | pp. 163–186
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Pragmatic interactions in a second languageBeatriz Mariz Maia de Paiva | pp. 187–206
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Part III: Communication environments
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Between uniqueness and universality: An ethnomethodological analysis of language gamesBrian Torode | pp. 209–234
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The transition of a Scottish Young Persons’s Centre — a dialogical analysisKesi Mahendran | pp. 235–256
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Conversational action: An ergonomic approach to interactionMario Cesar Vidal and Renato José Bonfatti | pp. 257–272
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‘Flaming’ in computer-mediated interactionsAnthi Avgerinakou | pp. 273–293
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Constructing the uncertainties of bioterror: A study of U.S. news reporting on the anthrax attack of fall, 2001Austin Babrow and Mohan Dutta-Bergman | pp. 295–315
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Index of names | pp. 317–319
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Index of subjects | pp. 321–325
“[...], the reader will no doubt find interesting insights on what communicative interaction is and on the different research areas that researchers have suggested in order to analyze this typically human activity.”
Francisco Yus, University of Alicante, Spain
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General