Edda Weigand
Biographic Data
| ID | 751034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edda Weigand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edda |
| FAMILY NAME | Weigand |
| SIGNATURE | WEIGAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5572-6659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Principles of New Science: Dialogue between science and philosophy
The current state of the art in Dialogue Analysis represents a multitude of diverse models of dialogue, communication, pragmatics, discourse, interaction, organization, and management, which claim to be science or philosophy. Can we indeed expose science and philosophy to arbitrary decisions on issues and methodology? As soon as our object becomes ‘dialogue in the stream of life’, science faces the issue of complexity. The challenge is to develop…
Dialogue: The complex whole
The article unfolds dialogue as the complex whole of human action and behaviour in the theory of New Science. The actual state of research in dialogue analysis seems to be a garden of a thousand flowers where scholars can pick out the flower they like. Can this be science? New Science is introduced as science of complexity which represents a new hierarchy of integrated components derived from the complex whole. The structure of dialogue as the co…
Language and dialogue in philosophy and science
This article gives an overview of how ‘language’ and ‘dialogue’ are dealt with in recent approaches of philosophy, science and dialogue analysis. The philosophy of language is outlined by referring to a few selected examples. Linguistic science is mainly addressed from the perspective of attempts to structure pragmatics. The basic premise is that dialogue is the key to pragmatics. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how a theory of dialogu…
Dialogue and Artificial Intelligence
The article focuses on a few central issues of dialogic competence-in-performance which are still beyond the reach of models of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Learning machines have made an amazing step forward but still face barriers which cannot be crossed yet. Linguistics is still described at the level of Chomsky’s view of language competence. Modelling competence-in-performance requires a holistic model, such as the Mixed Game Model ( Weigand…
Methodologie der Dialoganalyse
The theory myth
First of all, I would like to make clear that this paper is meant as a response to the attack against the Mixed Game Model ( Weigand 2010 ) launched by Harrissians in their articles of the Special Issue of this journal ( 2018 , 1). When I became aware of the fact that against their dogmatic position no argument can take effect, I decided not to take part directly in such a pseudo-debate but to respond in a discussion article in the next issue (se…
Iada history: The unity of dialogue and its multiple faces
IADA History not only refers to the series of conferences and workshops which have been organized since the foundation of the Association but also to the discussions about a unified concept of dialogue which accompanied IADA’s activities during the last three decades. On the one hand, there is the basic question of what constitutes dialogue, while on the other hand there are multiple approaches which claim to be acknowledged as dialogic approache…
How to verify a theory of dialogue
In recent decades the term ‘theory’ has pervasively been used in the literature without any reflection upon the conditions of its legitimate use. The paper focuses on the issue of what makes up a theory. Constitutive components are the object-of-study and the methodology. The object of a theory has to be the minimal autonomous unit. The object ‘dialogue’ is a human affair, language used by human beings in the dialogic action game. Any approach wh…
Dialogue in the stream of life
The paper considers dialogue from the point of view Wittgenstein has called ‘the stream of life’ and aims at describing analytically what happens in complex dialogues of performance. A short overview is given of approaches which use the term ‘communities’ to structure performance, e.g. ‘communities of practice’ or ‘speech communities’. Contrary to these approaches which are either oriented towards parts of the whole, such as speech, or address th…
Identity as a dialogic concept
Identity has been investigated from different perspectives and there are therefore numerous ways of interpreting this concept. Basically it seems to be a method of categorizing people. We are however not only a slot in a bureaucratic system but social and dialogic human beings. As social individuals we can think about social consequences, and as dialogic individuals we can demonstrate our own supposed identity and evaluate the alleged identity of…
Words between reality and fiction
The transition from reality to fiction can be best illustrated by analysing autobiographies which claim to describe the life of the author. Essentially they are based on memories, which poses the question whether what is being remembered really happened in this way. In what respect do ‘real’ stories differ from ‘literary’ or ‘fictional’ ones? Several literary autobiographies are analysed and contrasted with popular autobiographies. Are there spec…
Professional action games: Theory and practice
The paper starts by circumscribing the issue and clarifying basic concepts. The object ‘professional action games’ is defined as institutional action games which have specific purposes and interests and are organized on some legal basis. Focusing on the example of business games, the crucial structure and essential points of business in our social market economy are elaborated. What emerges are highly complex games which cannot adequately be desc…
Power in dialogic interaction
Power in dialogic interaction can be understood as a force which is used to influence our interlocutors by various communicative means. As such it is an integrated component of any action game. The paper gives a short overview of how power is usually dealt with in the literature, namely from the observer perspective. However, power as an integrated component means power-in-action. Power-in-action can be considered as negative or positive power de…
Paradigm changes in linguistics: From Reductionism to Holism
Dialogue – The Mixed Game: The Mixed Game
The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests by the integrated use of various communicative means, mainly verbal, perceptual and cognitive. The core unit is the dialogic action game or ‘the mixed g…
Linguists and their speakers
Language as Dialogue
This summary gives an introduction to the volume "Language as dialogue. From rules to principles of probability" (Weigand, Benjamins, 2009), which traces the development of my thinking about language and languages within the last two decades. The volume assembles a series of articles, some of them unpublished before. The topics of the articles are manifold and far-reaching; they include, for instance, speech act theory, pragmatics, semantics, lex…
Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability
With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus substantially shaped the way in which people look at language today. This book traces Weigand’s linguistic career from its beginning to today and comprises a sele…
Dialogue and rhetoric
"The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes rules as well as inferences. The same is true of rhetoric: the guidelines proposed here no longer state that rationality and persuasion are mutually exc…
Dialogue and culture
Empirical data and theoretical models
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Sprache als Dialog: Sprechakttaxonomie und kommunikative Grammatik
The aim of this book is to establish a general theory of communication on the basis of a functional dialogic speech act taxonomy and to apply it to a communicative grammar of the German language. The unit of description is the sequence consisting of action and reaction in the action game. The completely revised second edition develops a new concept of communicative competence which goes beyond a closed system of conventions and can be described a…
Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction
The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning and understanding in the framework of an open dialogic universe? Negotiation, on the one hand, can be taken as the name of a specific dialogue type or ac…
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Misunderstanding: The standard case
Misunderstanding: The standard case
Paradigm changes in linguistics: From Reductionism to Holism
Word meaning and utterance meaning
Language and dialogue in philosophy and science
This article gives an overview of how ‘language’ and ‘dialogue’ are dealt with in recent approaches of philosophy, science and dialogue analysis. The philosophy of language is outlined by referring to a few selected examples. Linguistic science is mainly addressed from the perspective of attempts to structure pragmatics. The basic premise is that dialogue is the key to pragmatics. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how a theory of dialogu…
Language as Dialogue
This summary gives an introduction to the volume "Language as dialogue. From rules to principles of probability" (Weigand, Benjamins, 2009), which traces the development of my thinking about language and languages within the last two decades. The volume assembles a series of articles, some of them unpublished before. The topics of the articles are manifold and far-reaching; they include, for instance, speech act theory, pragmatics, semantics, lex…
Sprache als Dialog: Sprechakttaxonomie und Kommunikative Grammatik
Dialoganalyse III, Teil 1: Referate der 3. Arbeitstagung, Bologna 1990
Methodology of dialogue analysis
Verständigungsprobleme
Stil und Stilisierung. Arbeiten zur interpretativen Soziolinguistik
Word meaning and utterance meaning
The state of the art in speech act theory
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Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguistics. Whereas the rule-governed model-oriented approach is necessarily restricted to subsets of vocabulary, the pragmatic approach aims to analyse and…
Lexical Structures and Language Use
Misunderstanding: The standard case
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction
The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning and understanding in the framework of an open dialogic universe? Negotiation, on the one hand, can be taken as the name of a specific dialogue type or ac…
Sprache als Dialog: Sprechakttaxonomie und kommunikative Grammatik
The aim of this book is to establish a general theory of communication on the basis of a functional dialogic speech act taxonomy and to apply it to a communicative grammar of the German language. The unit of description is the sequence consisting of action and reaction in the action game. The completely revised second edition develops a new concept of communicative competence which goes beyond a closed system of conventions and can be described a…
Empirical data and theoretical models
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Dialogue and culture
Dialogue and rhetoric
"The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes rules as well as inferences. The same is true of rhetoric: the guidelines proposed here no longer state that rationality and persuasion are mutually exc…
Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability
With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus substantially shaped the way in which people look at language today. This book traces Weigand’s linguistic career from its beginning to today and comprises a sele…
Dialogue – The Mixed Game: The Mixed Game
The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests by the integrated use of various communicative means, mainly verbal, perceptual and cognitive. The core unit is the dialogic action game or ‘the mixed g…
Linguists and their speakers
Language as Dialogue
This summary gives an introduction to the volume "Language as dialogue. From rules to principles of probability" (Weigand, Benjamins, 2009), which traces the development of my thinking about language and languages within the last two decades. The volume assembles a series of articles, some of them unpublished before. The topics of the articles are manifold and far-reaching; they include, for instance, speech act theory, pragmatics, semantics, lex…
Power in dialogic interaction
Power in dialogic interaction can be understood as a force which is used to influence our interlocutors by various communicative means. As such it is an integrated component of any action game. The paper gives a short overview of how power is usually dealt with in the literature, namely from the observer perspective. However, power as an integrated component means power-in-action. Power-in-action can be considered as negative or positive power de…
Paradigm changes in linguistics: From Reductionism to Holism
Professional action games: Theory and practice
The paper starts by circumscribing the issue and clarifying basic concepts. The object ‘professional action games’ is defined as institutional action games which have specific purposes and interests and are organized on some legal basis. Focusing on the example of business games, the crucial structure and essential points of business in our social market economy are elaborated. What emerges are highly complex games which cannot adequately be desc…
Words between reality and fiction
The transition from reality to fiction can be best illustrated by analysing autobiographies which claim to describe the life of the author. Essentially they are based on memories, which poses the question whether what is being remembered really happened in this way. In what respect do ‘real’ stories differ from ‘literary’ or ‘fictional’ ones? Several literary autobiographies are analysed and contrasted with popular autobiographies. Are there spec…
Dialogue in the stream of life
The paper considers dialogue from the point of view Wittgenstein has called ‘the stream of life’ and aims at describing analytically what happens in complex dialogues of performance. A short overview is given of approaches which use the term ‘communities’ to structure performance, e.g. ‘communities of practice’ or ‘speech communities’. Contrary to these approaches which are either oriented towards parts of the whole, such as speech, or address th…
Philosophy (25 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (20 works) · Linguistics (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (14 works) · Dialogic (11 works) · Cognitive science (9 works)