Some comments on the concept of conversational history

Authors

  • Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu University of Bucharest Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.33345

Keywords:

conversational history, conversational units, interior dialogization of discourse, silence, monoglossy

Abstract

The article attempts to evaluate the theoretical importance and the explicative power of the concept of conversational history. From a theoretical viewpoint it complements, at a different level, Bakhtin’s concept of interior dialogization of discourse. It proved its efficiency mainly in the analysis of litterary texts.

Author Biography

  • Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, University of Bucharest
    Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu is Professor Emerita at the University of Bucharest (Romania), Department of Linguistics, Fulbright Professor (1990-1991) at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), and Visiting Professor (1996-1999) at the University of Vienna. She has published extensively on topics related to pragmatics, discourse analysis, and argumentation. She has edited several volumes and coordinated a project related to creating a corpus of verbal interaction in present-day Romanian.

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Published

2018-11-06

How to Cite

Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, L. (2018). Some comments on the concept of conversational history. Sociolinguistic Studies, 12(1), 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.33345