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1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Dialogue studies,
1875-1792 ;
v. 6
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Dialogue studies ; v. 6.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Part I. Agency, texts, and passion: arguments for a reconceptualization. For a renewed conception of action -- How texts (and other things) do things with words -- Passion, animation, and decision -- Part II. Ventriloquism and incarnation. Ventriloquism or the ecstatic dimension of communication -- Incarnation. |
Summary |
What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as "doing things with words"? That is, what if other "things" could also be granted the status of agents in a dialogical situation? Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation, and ventriloquism proposes to explore this unique hypothesis by mobilizing metaphorically the notion of ventriloquism. According to this ventri. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Dialogue analysis.
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Dialogue analysis. |
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Oral communication.
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Oral communication. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Title |
Action and agency in dialog |
Other Form: |
Print version: Cooren, François. Action and agency in dialogue. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027210234 (DLC) 2010008091 (OCoLC)529958095 |
ISBN |
9789027288196 (electronic book) |
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9027288194 (electronic book) |
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9027210233 |
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9789027210234 |
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1281042528 |
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9781281042521 |
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9789027210234 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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