Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue

Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue Selected Papers from the 8th IADA Conference, Göteborg 2001

Karin Aijmer2004
The present collection of articles, presented at the 8th IADA Conference in Göteborg, focuses on understanding and misunderstanding as dialogic phenomena. The notion of a dialogic grammar and dialogic principles as a framework for understanding human communication and cognition is explored in several contributions. Misunderstanding in dialogue is dealt with in institutional and non-institutional settings, in fiction and film dialogue, from several different theoretical perspectives.
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