Mutualities in Dialogue [Hardcover]

Psychologists and linguists examine the role of mutualities (e.g. of culture) in effective communication.Referring to dialogue as face-to-face interaction between two or more individuals using a system of signs, this text seeks to determine the mutualities of language, culture and interpersonal information that are prerequisites for effective communication.Referring to dialogue as face-to-face interaction between two or more individuals using a system of signs, this text seeks to determine the mutualities of language, culture and interpersonal information that are prerequisites for effective communication.Dialogue has developed from more primitive forms of communication during evolution. In Mutualities in Dialogue, dialogue refers to face-to-face interaction between two or more individuals using a system of signs. It asks the question What is it that we share in the course of a dialogue? , arguing that mutualities of language, culture and some interpersonal information are prerequisite for effective communication. Even in instances of noncooperation or of asymmetrical dialogue elementary commonalities must be present.1. Commonality, mutuality, reciprocity: a conceptual introduction C. F. Graumann; Part I. Mutualities in Preverbal and Nonverbal Communication: 2. Mutuality and dialogue in non-human primate communication D. W. Ploog; 3. Origins of reciprocity and mutuality in prelinguistic parent-infant 'dialogues' M. Papousek; 4. Congruence, contagion, and motor mimicry: mutualities in nonverbal exchange H. G. Wallbott; Part II. Establishing and Maintinaing Mutuality: 5. Mutual inferencing in conversation J. J. Gumperz; 6. Coordination of perspective in dialogue: intrapersonal and interpersonal processes R. M. Krauss. S. R. Fussell and Y. Chen; Part III. Problems of Mutuality and Understanding: 7. On mutual understanding and agreement in dialogues K. Foppa; 8. Troubles with mutualities: toward a dialogical theory of misunderstanding and miscommunication P. l°