Dialogue analysis 2000

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This work features a comprehensive exploration of dialogue studies, beginning with introductory remarks and reflections on the field's evolution and future directions. Key topics include the structure and processes of dialogue, understanding strategies, and the application of complexity theories to dialogue analysis. Contributions delve into various aspects, such as discourse particles, the potential for computer conversations, and forensic linguistic evaluations of police evidence. The media's role in public oral discourse is also examined. The second part presents a range of papers addressing misunderstandings in Internet Relay Chat, group dialogues in literature, and the dynamics of polite versus polemical disputation. It includes studies on metadiscursive triads, everyday discourse on immigration, and interactions with patients, alongside historical analyses of dialogical structures in controversies. Additionally, it covers rhetorical strategies in parliamentary discourse, politeness in online forums, and the interplay of cultural differences in dialogue. Other contributions investigate the nuances of exclamatives and interrogatives, the construction of credibility in courtroom testimonies, and the impact of discourse practices in confrontational media interviews. The collection culminates in discussions of dialogic action games and the normative expectations surrounding news interviews, offering a rich tapestry of insig