Publisher's Synopsis
This work presents nine authors' ideas on how dialogue operates. they cover the theoretical basis for the social nature of language from a number of different academic perspectives, examining not only the "transparent", face to face dialogue between people, but also the symbolic nature of human communication.;The different disciplines from which the contributors draw their views are phenomenology, semiotics, pragmatics, the sociology of knowledge, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and German Expressionism.
