Per Linell

Biographic Data

ID3737631
NAMEPer Linell
GIVEN NAMESPer
FAMILY NAMELinell
SIGNATURELINELL P
AFFILIATIONSLinköping University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS235
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX9

  • On the Lookout for Dialogue: Towards an Extended Dialogism

    Open AccessPer LinellARTICLEPublic Journal of Semiotics2022

    What is dialogue and where can we search for it? This is the major question asked in this article, with the intention to contribute to a discussion of the essence of extended dialogism (ED), the study of dialogue in a broad perspective. I begin with a brief summary of ED formulated in 18 points, and then elaborate on some of these, including the relation between basic utterances (actions) and activity types, between literal and extended (metaphor…

  • Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts: An empirical substantiation

    Open AccessKerstin Norén, Per LinellARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2022

    This article is a contribution to a theory of lexical semantics and situated sense-making which aims at explaining how meaning is constituted in and across contexts, in a dialogical interplay between lexical resources and aspects of situations. We propose that the semantics of words or grammatical constructions are not just abstract schemas, to be filled in by pragmatic enrichment in situated uses. Nor are words associated with simple lists of di…

  • Ragnar Rommetveit: A full life

    Open AccessBente Eriksen Hagtvet, Per Linell et al.ARTICLECulture & Psychology2020

    Over a long professional lifetime, Ragnar Rommetveit contributed to numerous disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting discussions in global social science and his own unending quest to understand social and individual life. His remarkable career and impact can be outlined in terms of four main phases. The first involved general social psychology in the 1950s and was reflected in Social Norms and Roles (1953/1955). In the seco…

  • The Written Language Bias (WLB) in linguistics 40 years after

    Open AccessPer LinellARTICLELanguage Sciences2019

  • Dialogism is an integrationism: Reply to Peter Jones

    Per LinellARTICLELanguage and Dialogue2018

    In Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018), Peter Jones wrote a critical article dealing with dialogical theory in the context of language and communication. His article covered several theoretical and methodological frameworks dealing with concepts of dialogue, here interpreted from the point-of-view of Roy Harris’s integrationism. Edda Weigand (this issue) has written a comprehensive discussion article which mainly focuses on Pablé (2018) and Orman (2…

  • Dialogue, dialogicality and interactivity: A conceptually bewildering field

    Per LinellARTICLELanguage and Dialogue2017

    This paper discusses about twenty approaches to the study of dialogue or interaction. The literature shows different foci in and understandings of these phenomena. There is a basic distinction between dialogue – in the sense of overt exchanges of sequentialised utterances or contributions by two or more participants who are co-present in particular situated encounters – and dialogicality , which is taken to be a more general capacity that enables…

  • Insights and their emergence in everyday practices: The interplay between problems and solutions in emergency medicine

    Sarah B Trasmundi, Per LinellARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2017

    The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is a theoretical and empirically based contribution to the branch of research that studies enabling conditions of human sense-making. It demonstrates the value of a coherent ecological framework, based on dialogism and interactivity for the study of sense-making, problem-solving and task performance in naturalistic contexts. Second, it presents a promising method for the analysis of cognitive activiti…

  • Partial intersubjectivity and sufficient understandings for current practical purposes: On a specialized practice in Swedish conversation

    Open AccessPer Linell, Jan LindstromARTICLENordic Journal of Linguistics2016

    This paper explores issues of intersubjectivity and shared understanding as they arise in dyadic spoken interaction. Using data from Swedish conversations, we approach the topic by focusing on the functions of a reactive construction that occurs in situations when a linguistic expression ( x ) has been used in a prior utterance, and this expression is found to be only partially acceptable in the situation at hand. It is therefore reacted to by on…

  • Dialogism and the Distributed Language Approach: A rejoinder to Steffensen

    Open AccessPer LinellARTICLELanguage Sciences2015Cited by: 5References: 13

  • Mishearings are occasioned by contextual assumptions and situational affordances

    Open AccessPer LinellARTICLELanguage & Communication2015Cited by: 2References: 19

  • The Construction of Professional Discourse

    Britt‐Louise Gunnarsson, B L Gunnarsson et al.BOOKConstruction of Professional…2014

    Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers within Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and the sociology of science. Studies of professional communication have traditionally been biased towards the written medium and have been carried out with …

  • Interactivities, intersubjectivities and language: On dialogism and phenomenology

    Per LinellARTICLELanguage and Dialogue2014

    This theoretical paper deals with intersubjectivity and interactivity in relation to language and sense-making. It starts out from a critical discussion of certain proposals regarding the nature and localisation of language, that is, radical versions of individualism and collectivism. The conclusion is that both are untenable. Instead, we must assume that language originates and lives in interactivities between sense-making people. Such an ‘inter…

  • Distributed language theory, with or without dialogue

    Open AccessPer LinellARTICLELanguage Sciences2013Cited by: 9References: 10

    This review article is a discussion of Stephen Cowley’s (2011) anthology entitled Distributed Language. The review takes up some important concepts and discussions that have acquired renewed interest within the language sciences, in and through Distributed Language Theory. These include the claims that language is ‘distributed’, ‘non-local’ and ‘values-realising’. In particular I discuss the relation of DLT to ‘dialogical’ ideas of language and l…

  • Pivot constructions as everyday conversational phenomena within a cross-linguistic perspective: An introduction

    Open AccessNiklas Norén, Per LinellARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2013Cited by: 11References: 12

  • That is not necessary for you to know: Negotiation of participation status of unaccompanied children in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings

    Olga Keselman, Ann-Christin Cederborg et al.ARTICLEInterpreting International…2010Cited by: 11

    This article is a study of how the participation status of asylum-seeking children is interactively constructed in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings. We have undertaken a discourse analysis of 50 non-repair side-sequences from 26 hearings with Russian-speaking, asylum-seeking children in Sweden. A side-sequence is here defined as a monolingual sequence conducted in only one of the languages involved in the interviews. It involves the interpret…

  • Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically: Interactional and Contextual Theories of Human Sense-Making

    Per LinellBOOKRethinking Language, Mind, and…2009

    Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically written by Per Linell discusses Interactional and contextual theories of human sense - making.

  • Striking the balance between formality and informality in safety-critical communication: Train traffic control calls

    Open AccessMats Andrén, Johan M Sanne et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2009Cited by: 2References: 6

  • Dialogicality in languages, minds and brains: Is There a Convergence Between Dialogism and Neuro-Biology

    Open AccessPer LinellARTICLELanguage Sciences2007Cited by: 8References: 16

  • The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations

    Per LinellBOOKWritten Language Bias in…2004Cited by: 75References: 7

    hope that our reports will elicit discussion and comrnent from colleagues in the scientif ic f ields which are relevant for our interdisciplinary program, the study of human comrnunication

  • Risk talk: Rhetorical strategies in consultations on hormone replacement therapy

    Mikael Hoffmann, Per Linell et al.ARTICLEHealth Risk & Society2003

    When analysing risk discussions in medical settings it is important to consider the specific activity type. In this qualitative study 20 first-time consultations by healthy women regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the menopause the risk discussion is asymmetrical with the doctors dominating. Despite being set up as a specific opportunity for women in the menopause to discuss problems and risks, it comes forth as a decision-making acti…

  • Dialogical Tensions: On Rommetveitian Themes of Minds, Meanings, Monologues, and Languages

    Per LinellARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2003

    (2003). Dialogical Tensions: On Rommetveitian Themes of Minds, Meanings, Monologues, and Languages. Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 219-229

  • Moving in and out of framings: Activity Contexts in Talks With Young Unemployed People Within a Training Project

    Open AccessPer Linell, Daniel Persson ThunqvistARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2003Cited by: 12References: 19

  • Perspectives, implicitness and recontextualization

    Per LinellCHAPTERPerspective and Perspectivation…2002

    This title takes a look at how terms such as perspective, viewpoint and aspect, words that are frequently used and easily understood, are interrelated, namely, as perspectival terms, or as elements of a perspectival structure.

  • Expert Talk in Medical Contexts: Explicit and Implicit Orientation to Risks

    Per Linell, Viveka Adelswärd et al.ARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2002Cited by: 8References: 6

    In medical contexts, parties often have reasons to focus on risks: risks of developing diseases or of having children with congenital diseases, risks involved in taking drugs or in using a particular type of therapy, and so forth. In such risk-implicative contexts, doctors and nurses deal with the risk topics sometimes directly, at other times quite indirectly. In this article, we discuss results from studying 5 different health care contexts. We…

  • Routinization and Sensitivity: Interaction in Oncological Follow-Up Consultations

    Open AccessInger Sandén, Per Linell et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2001Cited by: 2References: 24

    The empirical data of this study were gathered in the form of audio-taped recordings of dialogues between 21 patients, who had had operations for testicular cancer and three physicians during follow-up consultations. The aim is to inquire into how routine practices affect the goals of checking up the medical conditions and providing patients with reassurance, and how practices affect the treatment of sensitive topics and the patients' possibiliti…