Overview

Spaces of Polyphony covers a lot of ground. It echoes the voices of researchers and their informants from many different places and backgrounds. Among the variety of languages under study and methodological approaches there is also a common ground and narrative thread underpinning the polyphonic chorus of the contributors. From a shared starting point of discourse analysis and inspiration from Bakhtin, the various authors span from East to West, from Moscow to Texas, from Romania and Czech Republic to Mexico. They look into all ages, starting from early childhood, and many walks of life, ranging from casual chatting among relatives to parliamentary speeches and TV shows, including formal education, literary inner monologue and translation. Irony, humour and self-awareness are recurrent themes. The array of voices and dialogism studied in this book is such that it even includes the silent (silenced) voices of people forced to express their heritage by weaving their discourse.

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Author:   Clara Ubaldina Lorda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ,  Patrick Zabalbeascoa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   15
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9789027210326

ISBN 10:   9027210322
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   29 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Lorda, Clara Ubaldina); 2. Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations; 3. Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue (by Sanders, Robert E.); 4. Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints (by Christodoulidou, Maria); 5. Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices: Conversational humour as a polyphonic phenomenon (by Priego-Valverde, Beatrice); 6. Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning; 7. Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisition (by Morgenstern, Aliyah); 8. Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialogues (by Baraldi, Claudio); 9. Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices (by Farini, Federico); 10. Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom (by Showstack, Rachel Elizabeth); 11. Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics; 12. Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogue (by Vlad, Daciana); 13. Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers (by Sivenkova, Maria); 14. Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-show (by Havlik, Martin); 15. Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show (by Cmejrkova, Svetla); 16. Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality; 17. Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markers (by Magda, Margareta Manu); 18. Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatability (by Ene, Ana); 19. Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textiles (by Anaya, Josefina); 20. Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse; 21. Chapter 15. Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people : Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O'Brien's comic writing (by Coulouma, Flore); 22. Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourse (by Parpala, Emilia Afana); 23. Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties (by Popescu, Carmen); 24. Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues (by Riccioni, Ilaria); 25. General references; 26. Index

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The lively dialogism and colorful array of voices in this book make it an exciting and memorable `polyphonic journey'. It represents a valuable resource for students and scholars of dialogue analysis, literary analysis, linguistics and intercultural communication who seek to broaden their knowledge of the field beyond their specialization. -- Guofeng Wang, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies Vol. 16:5 (2014)

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