Dialogical Genres: Empractical and Conversational Listening and Speaking [Hardcover]

This work gives a thorough revision of history through a psychological approach to verbal interaction between listeners and speakers. This book offers a large amount of information on the psychology of language and on psycholinguistics, and focuses on a new direction for a psychology of verbal communication. Empirical research includes media interviews, public speeches, and dramatic performances.

Empractical speech occurs when humans converse occasionally during non-verbal activities such as fishing. This volume combines historical, theoretical, and empirical approaches to delineate the differences between empractical and conversational speech.

Part I: Taxonomoy and selectivity.- Historical sources: Credit where credit is due.- An historical search for genres of spoken dialogue.- An empirical search for genres of spoken dialogue.- Part II: Theoretical considerations of empractical speech.- Empractical speech: The forgotten sibling in spoken dialogue.- Time - Arbiter of continuity.- Listener roles in genres of spoken dialogue.- Social responsibility in spoken dialogue.- New directions.- Epilogue.

The authors are experimental psychologists who have been engaged in research together for more than 40 years now.? Dan OConnell studied at St. Louis University and did doctoral work at the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana); Sabine Kowal studied at the Free University of Berlin and did doctoral work at St. Louis University.? OConnells career was at St. Louis, Loyola of Chicago, and Georgetown Universities, while Kowals was at both the Technical University of Berlin and the Anna Freud Oberschule in Berlin.? For many years, the team was oriented toward mainstream psycholinguistics and experimental research on speech production.? Throughout the last decades of the 20^th century, their interest shifted to spontaneous spoken discourse under field observational conditions.? This shift had as its origin lS