"This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two 'circles' which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object, 'language use'. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however no clear answer as to what language use means. We are instead confronted with multiple and diverse models in an uncircumscribed field of language use. When trying to transform such a puzzle of pieces into a meaningful picture we are confronted with the complexity of language use which does not mean 'language' put to 'use' but represents the unity of a complex whole and calls for a total change in methodology towards a holistic theory. Human beings as dialogic individuals use language as dialogue which allows them to tackle the vicissitudes of their lives. Dialogue and its methodology of action and reaction can be traced back to human nature and provides the key to the unstructured field of pragmatics. The contributions to this volume share this common ground and address various perspectives in different types of action game"--.

• From Pragmatics to Dialogue
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • References
• Dialogue: The key to pragmatics
  • 1. The issue
  • 2. What pragmatics is about
  • 3. The challenge of the dialogic turn
  • 4. The architecture of complexity
  • 5. Examples of dialogic action games
  • 6. Conclusion and outlook
  • References
• Humboldt, Bhartrihari, and the dialogic
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Indian philosophy of language
  • 3. Humboldt’s context
  • 4. Saussure and language use
  • 5. Dialogical language
  • 6. Dialogical thought
  • 7. Conclusion: Dialogical world-making
  • References
• Moving beyond pragmatics: The role of dialogue in studies of “rhetoric in situ”
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rhetoric in situ
  • 3. Linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics and rhetoric
  • 4. Weigand’s dialogue theory
  • 5. Rhetoric in situ and the mixed game model
  • References
• Progress in language teaching: From competence to dialogic competence-in-performance
  • 1. The role of cross-cultural communication in language teaching
  • 2. Mixed game model (MGM)
  • 3. Minimal action games in a German textbook (Schritte plus neu)
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Research interview as social interaction: Epistemic implications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Research interviewing: What’s in a practice?
  • 3. Meaning as a bounded, stable and observable entity: The bias theories
  • 4. Telling in interviews: When and for whom meaning is an interactive achievement?
  • 5. From a dialogic point of view: Research interview as social interaction
  • 6. The question – answer game
  • 7. Post hoc ergo propter hoc: Contradictions or context shaped contributions?
  • 8. Meaning and the dialogical organization of talk: Rethinking the researcher’s effect
  • 9. The dialogical nature of research interviewing: The epistemological consequences of a neglected dimension
  • References
• Bounded segments of interaction: The case of redressing the breach of a cultural norm once it is flagged
  • 1. Bounded segments of interaction
  • 2. Remedial work
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Dialogicity in written language use: Variation across expert action games
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background: The dialogicity of academic writing
  • 3. A case study of Paul Krugman
  • 4. Dialogicity in research articles
  • 5. Dialogicity in research and in knowledge dissemination
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Dialogic pragmatics and complex objects: Engaging the life and work of Gregory Bateson
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Pragmatics and complex objects
  • 3. From paradox to metacommunication: Complex objects
  • 4. Communicology and complex objects
  • 5. Bateson’s biography as a complex object
  • 6. Dialogic pragmatics: Understanding complex objects
  • References
• Types and functions of pseudo-dialogues
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Constituents influencing the course of communication
  • 3. Types of dialogues
  • 4. Types of pseudo-dialogues
  • 5. Observations on pseudo-dialogues in ORD material
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• List of contributors
• Index