Dialogue and Culture

Editors

Marion Grein | Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz

Edda Weigand | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

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The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called ‘language instinct debate’ between nativists and empiricists and introduces a mediating position that regards language and dialogue as determined by both human nature and culture. This sets the framework for the contributions of Part II which propose varying theoretical positions on how to address the ways in which culture influences dialogue. Part III presents more empirically oriented studies which demonstrate the interaction of components in the ‘mixed game’ and focus, in particular, on specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication.

[Dialogue Studies, 1] 2007. xii, 262 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.1

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. ix–xi

Part I. Language, biology and culture: The crucial debate

Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture and why it shouldn't

Geoffrey Sampson | pp. 3–25

The sociobiology of language

Edda Weigand | pp. 27–49

Part II. Theoretical positions

Some general thoughts about linguistic typology and dialogue linguistics

Walter Bisang | pp. 53–72

Intercultural dialogue and academic discourse

Svĕtla Čmejrková | pp. 73–94

The speech act of refusals within the minimal action game: A comparative study of German and Japanese

Marion Grein | pp. 95–113

Gestural regulators in French, Japanese and American English dialogues

Caroline E. Nash | pp. 115–140

Quantity scales towards culture-specific profiles of discourse norms

Elda Weizman | pp. 141–152

Part III. Empirically oriented studies of the 'mixed game': Specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication

Dialogue interpreting as intercultural mediation: An analysis in health care multicultural settings

Claudio Baraldi and Laura Gavioli | pp. 155–175

Cultural differences in the speech act of greeting

Sebastian Feller | pp. 177–190

Refusals and politeness in directive action games: Cultural differences between Korean and German

Yongkil Cho | pp. 191–212

How diplomatic can a language be? The unwritten rules in a language: An analysis of spoken Sinhala

Neelakshi Chandrasena Premawardhena | pp. 213–225

Cultural values and their hierarchies in everyday discourse

Ksenia Shilikhina | pp. 227–237

Cultural and contextual constraints in communication

Michael R. Walrod | pp. 239–256

General index | pp. 257–260

List of contributors | pp. 261–262

Cited by

Cited by 2 other publications

Mirzaei, Azizullah & Faranak Forouzandeh

2013. Relationship Between Intercultural Communicative Competence and L2-Learning Motivation of Iranian EFL Learners. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 42:3 ► pp. 300 ff.

Weigand, Edda

2018. Ethics in dialogue. In Dialogic Ethics [Dialogue Studies, 30], ► pp. 1 ff.

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