Introduction
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings
An introduction
The goal of this special issue is to investigate the forms and functions of dialogicity in political discourse.
Starting with the premise that the boundaries between monologue and dialogue are blurred in contemporary political discourse in
general and in mediated political discourse in particular, it sets up to explore how dialogical features, manifest in situated
discourse in various degrees of explicitness, are exploited by participants in the political arena, be they professional
politicians, semi-professional activists or ordinary people, for various purposes.
Article outline
- 1.Politics and language
- 2.Dialogicity
- 2.1Dynamic co-construction of meaning
- 2.2Orientation towards the other
- 3.Multivocality
- 4.About the contributions
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