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Symbolische Kommunikation vor Gericht in der Frühen Neuzeit.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 94.90Hauptbeschreibung Der Wandel von symbolischen zu begrifflich-diskursiven Formen von Kommunikation wird häufig mit dem Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Moderne in Verbindung gebracht. Die Bewertung der Frühen Neuzeit als Epoche des langsamen Verschwindens symbolischer und ritueller Formen muss jedoch in Frage gestellt werden. Es ist vielmehr davon auszugehen,... more...
Conditional Press Influence in Politics
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 25.99This book theorizes and tests the conditions under which the press is a powerful political institution, and when it cedes its power to other institutions and actors. It gives a theoretical framework and substantive case studies to aid scholars across a wide area of American politics in understanding the news media's role in American politics. more...
Beyond Rhetorical Questions
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 158.00This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news... more...
Bilingual Couples Talk
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 173.00This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of coverage, these private conversations are supplemented... more...
Conversation Analysis
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 173.00This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by Harvey Sacks, the authors produce detailed empirical... more...
Emotion in Dialogic Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 158.00This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ?Emotion in Dialogic Interaction? at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of ?emotion in dialogic interaction? is mostly addressed by reducing the complex and separating emotions or defining them by... more...
Essays in Speech Act Theory
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 173.00Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mean? - How do we say it? and - How is it understood? in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on human communication. It presents an overview of current... more...
Features of Naturalness in Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 173.00The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence, language as doing, co-operation, unfolding, open-endedness,... more...
Getting Acquainted in Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 180.00What makes a ‘getting acquainted’ a recognizable conversational activity, and how are interpersonal relationships established in a first conversation? This book presents a theoretical framework for the study of relationship management in conversation and an empirical study of a corpus of initial interactions. It provides detailed descriptions... more...
Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 180.00The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning and understanding in the framework of an open dialogic... more...









