Dialogue : the mixed game /

The 'Mixed Game Model' represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings' competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue the...

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Main Author: Weigand, Edda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Dialogue studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dialogue
  • The Mixed Game; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: The simple and the complex; I. Rethinking theory: Patterns and beyond; 1. The state of the art; 2. The turning point in theorizing: Starting from the integrated whole; II. The Theory of Dialogic Action Games or the Mixed Game Model; 1. Premises about the object: From human affairs to language; 2. The methodology: Principles of Probability; 3. To sum up: The mixed game of human competence-in-performance; III. Minimal action games or the issue of a speech act taxonomy.