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.
- ISBN10 0745008755
- ISBN13 9780745008752
- Publish Date October 1990 (first published 1 October 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 December 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Prentice-Hall
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English