Karin Aijmer 
Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue [PDF ebook] 
Selected Papers from the 8th IADA Conference, Göteborg 2001

Contents: 1. Dialogical Grammar and Spoken Interaction: Per Linell , On Some Principles of a Dialogical Grammar. — Amy B.M. Tsui , What do Linguistic Descriptions have to Say about Discourse? — 2. Misunderstanding as a Dialogical Phenomenon: Sorin Stati , Misunderstanding. A Dialogic Problem. — Anita Fetzer , Infelicitous Communication or Degrees of Misunderstanding? — Ernst W. B. Hess-Lüttich , Understanding Misunderstanding: Kafka’s »The Trial«. — Silvia Bruti , Modal Competence and Misunderstandings in »The Merry Wives of Windsor«. — Monika Dannerer , Misunderstandings at Work. — Chiara M. Monzoni , Do Italians >Prefer< Disagreeing? Some Interactional Features of Disputational Talk in Italian Multi-Party Familiy Interaction. — Sara Cigada , The Logical Structure of Dialogue and the Representation of Emotions: An Example from Hitchcock’s »Notorious«. — Andreas H. Jucker / Sara W. Smith , He hired who? Problems in Reference Assignments in Conversations. — 3. Signposting in the Dialogue: Simone Müller , The Discourse Marker so in Native and Non-Native Discourse. — Jesús Romero Trillo , Subjective and Objective Grounding in Discourse Markers: A Cross-linguistic Corpus-driven Approach. — 4. Exploring Dialogue in Academic Discourse: Anna Mauranen , Talking Academic: A Corpus Approach to Academic Speech. — Luisa Granato / Anamaría Harvey , Topic Progression in Science Interviews. — Franca Poppi , Pragmatic Implications of the Use of we as a Receiver-including and Receiver-excluding Personal Pronoun. — 5. Dialogue and Multilingual or Multicultural Schools: Robert Maier , Dialogues and Exclusion in Multicultural Schools. — Silvia Gilardoni , Content and Language Integrated Learning: Interactions in Bilingual Classrooms. — 6. Focus Group Discussions: Viveka Adelswärd , Virtual Participants as Communicative Resources in Discussions on Gene Technology. — Victoria Wibeck , Exploring Focus Groups: Analysing Focus Group Data about Genetically Modified Food. — 7. Dialogue Analysis and Corpora: Edda Weigand , Possibilities and Limitations of Corpus Linguistics.