Understanding Dialogue

Understanding Dialogue

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  • Author: Martin J. Pickering
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316997499
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

Linguistic interaction between two people is the fundamental form of communication, yet almost all research in language use focuses on isolated speakers and listeners. In this innovative work, Garrod and Pickering extend the scope of psycholinguistics beyond individuals by introducing communication as a social activity. Drawing on psychological, linguistic, philosophical and sociological research, they expand their theory that alignment across individuals is the basis of communication, through the model of a 'shared workspace account'. In this workspace, interlocutors are actors who jointly manipulate and control the interaction and develop similar representations of both language and social context, in order to achieve communicative success. The book also explores dialogue within groups, technologies, as well as the role of culture more generally. Providing a new understanding of cognitive representation, this trailblazing work will be highly influential in the fields of linguistics, psychology and cognitive linguistics.


Toward a Dialogue of Understandings

Toward a Dialogue of Understandings

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  • Author: Mary Ellen Pitts
  • Publisher: Lehigh University Press
  • ISBN: 9780934223379
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

In Toward a Dialogue of Understandings, Mary Ellen Pitts examines scientist Loren Eiseley's unique impact as a thinker and writer.


The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue

The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue

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  • Author: Muthuraj Swamy
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474256422
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'. By challenging the assumption that 'world religions' operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, he shows that interreligious dialogue is in turn problematic as it is built on this very paradigm, and on the myth of religious conflict. Offering a critique of the idea of 'dialogue' as it has been advanced by its proponents such as religious leaders and theologians whose aims are to promote inter-religious conversation and understanding, the author argues that this approach is 'elitist' and that in reality, people do not make sharp distinctions between religions, nor do they separate political, economic, social and cultural beliefs and practices from their religious traditions. Case studies from villages in southern India explore how Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities interact in numerous ways that break the neat categories often used to describe each religion. Swamy argues that those who promote dialogue are ostensibly attempting to overcome the separate identities of religious practitioners through understanding, but in fact, they re-enforce them by encouraging a false sense of separation. The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations provides an innovative approach to a central issue confronting Religious Studies, combining both theory and ethnography.


Dialogue

Dialogue

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  • Author: Marcelo Dascal
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027279551
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 489

Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its ‘classic’ narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue. It is a first move toward interdisciplinary research in Dialogue Studies.


Towards Dialogue

Towards Dialogue

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  • Author: San van Eersel
  • Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
  • ISBN: 3830974833
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 169


Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding

Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding

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  • Author: Leonard Swidler
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137470690
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work on dialogue. The founder and president of the Dialogue Institute, Swidler offers through experience and research his theory and tools of interreligious, intercultural, and international dialogue.


Beyond Dialogue

Beyond Dialogue

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  • Author: John B. Cobb Jr.
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1725206870
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 172

Christian Reflection about other religions has often misinterpreted the truth of the other Ways. The Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of churches stress that Christians can gain an appreciative understanding of other traditions only through meaningful dialogue with believers of other faiths. This book, however, emphasizes the need for Christians to go beyond dialogue, to reach for a mutual transformation of Christianity and other religions. By way of example, the author explores with originality the Christian encounter with Mahayana Buddhism. He offer an original view of how Christianity and Buddhism can appropriately transform one another when both partners are truly respected as equal. Both contributing, both benefiting. John Cobb boldly challenges us "to hear in an authentic way the truth which the other has to teach us" and to be transformed by that truth.


Transforming Historical Trauma through Dialogue

Transforming Historical Trauma through Dialogue

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  • Author: David S. Derezotes
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1483315916
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

Today there is evidence that most minority groups in the United States suffer from symptoms related to intergenerational transmission of collective historical trauma. For those with additional mental health issues, treatment can become complicated unless underlying historical hostilities are addressed. This practical text, by David S. Derezotes, helps readers understand the causes and treatment of historical trauma at an individual, group, and community level and demonstrates how a participatory, strengths-based approach can work effectively in its treatment. The first to offer a combination of theory, literature review, and practice knowledge on dialogue, this book begins with a definition of historical trauma and transformation, includes the dialogue necessary to aid in transformation (such as self-care, self-awareness and professional self- development). The author proposes six key models of dialogue practice—psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, experiential, transpersonal, biological, and ecological—and shows how these models can be used to help transform sociohistorical trauma in clients. He then applies these six dialogue models to five common practice settings, including work with community divides, social justice work, peace and conflict work, dialogues with populations across the lifespan, and community therapy.


Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding

Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding

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  • Author: Fiona Maine
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 303071778X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 171

This open access book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the 21st century prioritising intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding. The Horizon 2020 funded, 3-year DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning (DIALLS) project included ten partners from countries in and around Europe with the aim to centralise co-constructive dialogue as a main cultural literacy value and to promote tolerance, empathy and inclusion. This is achieved through teaching children in schools from a young age to engage together in discussions where they may have differing viewpoints or perspectives, to enable a growing awareness of their own cultural identities, and those of others. Central to the project is children’s engagement with wordless picture books and films, which are used as stimuli for discussions around core cultural themes such as social responsibility, living together and sustainable development. In order to enable intercultural dialogue in action, the project developed an online platform as a tool for engagement across classes, and which this book elaborates on. The book explores themes underpinning this unique interdisciplinary project, drawing together scholars from cultural studies, civics education and linguistics, psychologists, socio-cultural literacy researchers, teacher educators and digital learning experts. Each chapter of the book explores a theme that is common to the project, and celebrates its interdisciplinarity by exploring these themes through different lenses.


Public Understanding of Science

Public Understanding of Science

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  • Category : Electronic journals
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 788

A forum for the emerging interdisciplinary field of public understanding of science, this journal encourages open debate of contrasting and even conflicting viewpoints on all aspects of the interrelationships between science and the public.