The volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis in the year 2000. Part I discusses general methodological issues - mostly within the framework of discourse and conversation analysis - whereas Part II presents specific case studies. The volume includes contributions that address both traditional areas of dialogue analysis such as politeness, and more recent areas of interest such as argumentation or the analysis of dialogic interaction in specific contexts.

Contents: Part I. Bologna 2000 Round Table: Franz Hundsnurscher, Introductory Remarks. - Frantisek Danes, A Retrospect and a Prospect of Dialogue Studies. - Edda Weigand, Dialogue Analysis 2000: Towards a Human Linguistics. - Robert Maier, A Process and Structure Conception of Dialogue. - Valerij Dem'jankov, Strategies of Understanding in Dialogue. - Bernd Naumann, Chaotic Dialogues. Can Ideas Formulated in Complexity Theories be Applied to Dialogue Analysis? - Karin Ajimer, Discourse Particles in Contrast. - John Sinclair, Can We Have a Conversation with a Computer? - Malcom Coulthard, What Did They Actually Say? A Forensic Linguist's Evaluation of Police Evidence. - Svetla Cmejrková, Media Dialogue as a Genre of Public Oral Discourse. - Part II. Papers: Carla Bazzanella/Alberto Baracco, Misunderstanding in IRC (Internet Relay Chat). - Massimo A. Bonfantini/Augusto Ponzio/Susan Petrilli, Trialogo sui dialoghi. - Régine Borderie, Dialogues de groupe: Balzac, Zola. - Adelino Cattani, Il disputator cortese e il disputator polemico. - Laurentina Dascalu Jinga, Metadiscursive Triads. - Marianne Doury, Argumentation et >mise en voix