"Eminent linguist Edda Weigand has assembled an inspiring collection of essays written by leading scholars in the field. The opening set of chapters cogently examines the evolution and pivotal junctures in our thinking about language over the past century. This lays solid groundwork for the reader to more fully grasp and appreciate the cutting-edge explorations of language as dialogue that follow in the next two parts. The array of contemporary holistic approaches to theorizing and modeling dialogue take stock of multiple factors including environment, perception, emotions, subjectivity, social rules and cultural norms that shape communication and meaning-making practices in real-life dialogue. This opens exciting possibilities for collaborative, interdisciplinary investigations into what it is to be human. This book will undoubtedly become essential reading for linguists, and its far-reaching insights will be of interest to anthropologists, philosophers of mind, and cognitive scientists."
Trevor H J Marchand, SOAS University of London, UK
"This handbook provides a superb overview of the whole history of linguistics, a history that leads us, in the end, to embrace a dialogical conception of language. According to this perspective, language has to be conceived and analyzed as language in use, but also, and maybe especially, as language as dialogue. With its all-star team of authors, Edda Weigand offers the readers a way to understand how this dialogical program can be sustained for the upcoming years." Franēois Cooren, Université de Montréal, Canada
"In this handbook prominent linguists present the consecutive trends of modern linguistics and provide a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the state of the art in modern linguistics. The key concept of language as dialogue opens the door to future research in Dialogue Analysis." Franz Hundsnurscher, University of Münster, Germany
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