The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue is the first comprehensive overview of the emerging and rapidly growing sub-discipline in linguistics, Language and Dialogue. Edited by one of the top scholars in the field, Edda Weigand, and comprising contributions written by a variety of likewise influential figures, the handbook aims to describe the history of modern linguistics as reasoned progress leading from de Saussure and the simplicity of artificial terms to the complexity of human action and behaviour, which is based on the integration of human abilities such as speaking, thinking, perceiving, and having emotions. The book is divided into three sections: the first focuses on the history of modern linguistics and related disciplines; the second part focuses on the core issues and open debates in the field of Language and Dialogue and introduces the arguments pro and contra certain positions; and the third section focuses on the three components that fundamentally affect language use: human nature, institutions, and culture. This handbook is the ideal resource for those interested in the relationship between Language and Dialogue, and will be of use to students and researchers in Linguistics and related fields such as Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, and Communication.

Preface; Part I The State of the Art; 1 Pragmatics: From language as a System of Signs to Language Use -- Jens Allwood; 2 Conversation Analysis -- Lorenza Mondada; 3 Corpus Linguistics -- Marina Bondi; 4 Discourse Analysis -- James Paul Gee; 5 From Pragmatics to Dialogue -- Istvan Kecskes; 6 Psycholinguistic Approaches: Meaning and Understanding -- Susan E. Brennan and Joy E. Hanna; 7 Intersubjectivity in Dialogue -- Per Linell; 8 Dialogue and Literature -- Roger D. Sell; 9 Computational Approaches to Dialogue -- David Traum; 10 From Speech Act Theory to Dialogue: Dialogue Grammar -- Sebastian Feller; 11 The Mixed Game Model: A Holistic Theory -- Edda Weigand; Part II Theoretical Key Issues and Open Debates; 12 Shifting Concepts of Language: Meeting the Challenge of Modelling Interactive Syntax -- Ruth Kempson; 13 The Concept of Language in an Utterance Grammar -- Edda Weigand; 14 The Issue of Theorising: Object-of-study and Methodology -- Arto Mustajoki; 15 Theory and Practice -- Dale Koike; 16 The Sociobiology of Language: What Mirror Neurons Can Tell Us -- Marco Iacoboni; Part III Components of Dialogic Interaction: Human Nature, Institutions and Cultures; 17 Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain -- Marion Grein; 18 Self Interest and Social Concerns -- Jennifer L. Adams; 19 Language as the Originative House of Dialogic Ethics -- Ronald C. Arnett; 20 Dialogue in Institutions -- Sebastian Feller; 21 Dialogue and the Law -- Fritjof Haft; 22 How Culture Affects Language and Dialogue -- Marion Grein; Outlook