Action and agency in dialogue : passion, incarnation and ventriloquism / François Cooren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooren, François.

Series:

Dialogue studies ; v. 6.

Dialogue studies, 1875-1792 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue analysis.

Oral communication.

Physical Description:

xvi, 206 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 ventriloqual perspective, interactions are never purely local, but dislocal, that is, they constantly mobilize figures (collectives, principles, values, emotions, etc.) that incarnate themselves in people's discussions. This highly original book, which develops the analytical, practical and ethical dimensions of such a theoretical positioning, may be of interest to communication scholars, linguists, sociologists, conversation analysts, management and organizational scholars, as well as philosophers interested in language, action and ethics.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613773517

9781281042521

1281042528

9789027288196

9027288194

OCLC:

649479070