Rethinking Language Mind and World Dialogically (PB)

A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner Clark UniversityThis is a remarkable and highly original work on dialogism dialogical theories and dialogue. With his erudite and broadly based scholarship PerLinell makes a path-breaking contribution to the study of the human mind presenting a novel alternative to traditional monologism and exploring thedynamics of sense-making in different forms of interaction and communicative projects. Although Per Linell discusses complex dialogical conceptsthe text is written with exceptional clarity taking the reader through critique as well as appreciation of great intellectual traditions of our time.(Professor Ivana Marková University of Stirling U.K.)Per Linell`s Rethinking Language Mind And World Dialogically represents a landmark in the development ofa transdisciplinary dialogically basedparadigm for the human sciences. The author´s lucid analysis and constructive rethinking ranges all the way from integrating explanations ofsignificant empirical contributions across the entire range of human sciences dealing with language thought and communication to foundationalepistemological and ontological issues.(Professor Ragnar Rommetveit University of Oslo Norway)Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture with a specialisation on communication and spokeninteraction at the University of Linköping Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduateschool in communication studies in Linköping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories inlinguistics psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue talk-in-interaction and institutionaldiscourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998) The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in FocusGroups (2007 with I. Marková M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).