Robert E. Sanders
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert E. Sanders plays a role.
2018 Bounded segments of interaction: The case of redressing the breach of a cultural norm once it is flagged From Pragmatics to Dialogue, Weigand, Edda and István Kecskés (eds.), pp. 113–136 | Chapter
This study examines naturally occurring instances of “bounded segments” of interaction. A bounded segment has a start point when interacting persons launch a task or activity, and a completion point when they reach closure. The importance of bounded segments from a dialogical perspective is that… read more
2015 A tale of two intentions: Intending what an utterance means and intending what an utterance achieves Pragmatics and Society 6:4, pp. 475–501 | Article
Speaker intention is conceptualized as a property of utterances in context, not speakers; it is based on communally shared knowledge of discursive means to ends. The article’s main theoretical claim is that utterances, in addition to being produced with an intention about their pragmatic meaning,… read more
2013 Conflict in the Jury Room: Averting acrimony and engendering it Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 1:2, pp. 141–164 | Article
A number of studies have shown how participants work to accomplish their goals in ways that minimize the possibility of acrimonious conflict. And yet acrimonious conflict does occur. This raises the issue of what circumstances and discursive moves engender acrimonious interactions and what… read more
2013 The calculability of communicative intentions through pragmatic reasoning Pragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
We provide conceptual and empirical support for the core tenet in pragmatic theory that speakers make their communicative intention about the pragmatic meaning of their utterances recognizable to hearers. First, we attribute skepticism about this tenet to conceptualizing communicative intentions as… read more
2012 The representation of self through the dialogic properties of talk and conduct Dialogue and Representation, Létourneau, Alain and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 28–40 | Article
It is a basic dialogical principle that the meaning of what is said or done is based on its similarities and especially its differences with other things that might have been said or done as relevantly instead, just then, just there. This makes what was actually said or done meaningful as a… read more
2012 Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 11–24 | Chapter
Bakhtin’s idea that any utterance has built into its meaning its connectedness to other utterances gives rise to his idea of the “anticipatoriness” of utterances – that utterances are made with the “expectation of a response” (Bakhtin 1986: 69). If so, then each utterance delimits the utterances… read more