Rethinking communicative interaction : new interdisciplinary horizons / edited by Colin B. Grant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Colin B.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 116.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub.Co., c2003.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Rethinking Communicative Interaction

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Contents

List of contributors

Rethinking communicative interaction

Notes

References

Part I Communicating the self

Dialogicality as an ontology of humanity

The subject as dialogical fiction

Language, communication and development of the self

Addressing oneself as another

Complexities of self and social communication

Part II Constructing communication

Histories and discourses

Autonomy, self-reference and contingency in computational neuroscience

Interaction versus action in Luhmann's sociology of communication

Pragmatic interactions in a second language

Part III Communication environments

Between uniqueness and universality

The transition of a Scottish Young Person's Centre - a dialogical analysis

Conversational action

'Flaming' in computer-mediated interactions

Constructing the uncertainties of bioterror

Index of names

Index of subjects

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612160622

9781282160620

1282160621

9789027295743

9027295743

OCLC:

70771473