Spaces of Polyphony

Abstract

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