The Dynamics of Dialogue - Hardcover

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.