Rethinking Communicative Interaction
New interdisciplinary horizons
Published on 19. December 2003
Book
Hardback
330 pages
978-90-272-5358-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory, computational neuroscience, sociology of communication, second language pragmatics, ergonomic interaction theory and computer-mediated interaction studies. In so doing, it sets out to establish a new research agenda in which communication science is understood as a human-social science par excellence. This collection of fifteen essays by seventeen scholars from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK will be of interest to scholars and students in all of the above fields. The editor, Colin B. Grant, is Reader in Modern Languages in the School of Management and Languages, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, where he runs the interdisciplinary social communication science research group. He is author of Literary Communication from Consensus to Rupture (1995), Functions and Fictions of Communication (2000) and chief editor of Language-Meaning-Social Construction (2001).
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[...], the reader will no doubt find interesting insights on what communicative interaction is and on the different research areas that researchers have suggested in order to analyze this typically human activity. -- Francisco Yus, University of Alicante, SpainMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 154 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5358-3 (9789027253583)
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Content
1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction: Rethinking communicative interaction: An interdisciplinary programme (by Grant, Colin B.); 3. Part I: Communicating the self; 4. Dialogicality as an ontology of humanity (by Markova, Ivana); 5. The subject as dialogical fiction (by Davey, Nicholas); 6. Language, communication and the development of the self (by Proietti, Renato); 7. Addressing oneself as another: Dialogue and the self in Habermas and Butler (by Stam, Henderikus J.); 8. Complexities of self and social communication (by Grant, Colin B.); 9. Part II: Constructing communication; 10. Histories and discourses: An integrated approach to communication science (by Schmidt, Siegfried J.); 11. Autonomy, self-reference and contingency in computational neuroscience (by Porr, Bernd); 12. Interaction versus action and Luhmann's sociology of communication (by Leydesdorff, Loet); 13. Pragmatic interactions in a second language (by Paiva, Beatriz Mariz Maia de); 14. Part III: Communication environments; 15. Between uniqueness and universality: An ethnomethodological analysis of language games (by Torode, Brian); 16. The transition of a Scottish Young Persons's Centre - a dialogical analysis (by Mahendran, Kesi); 17. Conversational action: An ergonomic approach to interaction (by Vidal, Mario Cesar); 18. 'Flaming' in computer-mediated interactions (by Avgerinakou, Anthi); 19. Constructing the uncertainties of bioterror: A study of U.S. news reporting on the anthrax attack of fall, 2001 (by Babrow, Austin); 20. Index of names; 21. Index of subjects