DIALOGUE THEORY AND IMAGINED INTERACTIONS

Communication Reports, 1990

Academia Letters, 2021

What is the proper unit of analysis in the psycholinguistics of dialog? While classical approaches are largely based on models of individual linguistic processing, recent advances stress the social coordinative nature of dialog. In the influential interactive alignment model, dialogue is thus approached as the progressive entrainment of interlocutors' linguistic behaviors toward the alignment of situation models. Still, the driving mechanisms are attributed to individual cognition in the form of automatic structural priming. Challenging these ideas, we outline a dynamical framework for studying dialog based on the notion of interpersonal synergy. Crucial to this synergetic model is the emphasis on dialog as an emergent, self-organizing, interpersonal system capable of functional coordination. A consequence of this model is that linguistic processes cannot be reduced to the workings of individual cognitive systems but must be approached also at the interpersonal level. From the synergy model follows a number of new predictions: beyond simple synchrony, good dialog affords complementary dynamics, constrained by contextual sensitivity and functional specificity. We substantiate our arguments by reference to recent empirical studies supporting the idea of dialog as interpersonal synergy.

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2019

Imagined interactions (IIs) occur when individuals recall past conversations with others as well as anticipate future ones. IIs intersect with the concept of inner speech, yet little is known about what elements IIs and inner speech share as well as how they differ. Information is offered about both Imagined Interaction Theory and inner speech, followed by a discussion pertaining to how they interact with other inner experiences. Results based on self-reported inner speech using a Thought Listing procedure are also presented. Two main conclusions are reached: (a) IIs constitute mental activities that do include one type of inner speech but which recruit additional components absent in the latter. (b) Inner speech includes IIs, but also encompasses many other topics and functions not present in, or served by, IIs. Consequently, inner speech and IIs ought not to be equated.

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2019

Similarities and differences between inner speech and imagined interactions (IIs) are discussed. Selected studies in both areas are reviewed. Inner speech originally was conceptualized as a stage in language acquisition and the process of thought. It reflects speaking to oneself in the form of monologue. It has been referred to as verbal thinking, inner speaking, covert self-talk, internal monologue, and internal dialogue as people talk to themselves in silence. IIs are similar, yet different in that imaginary dialogue reflects talking to another person while monologue is self-talk. IIs are a type of daydreaming, social cognition, and mental imagery in which people experience cognitive representations of conversation with accompanying verbal and nonverbal features. We highlight relevant studies in the areas of daydreaming, public speaking, rumination, cardiovascular arousal, and road rage. We conclude with two suggestions for future research.

Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1988

ETHOS: Dialogues in Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2017

In this paper, in general, I will present Martin Buber's and Emmanuel Levinas' perspectives on interpersonal relations within the main context of dialogue and then give my own standpoint about the issue in question: "Is asymmetry really needed for a genuine dialogue?" In the meantime, I will also propound some fundamental notions of their philosophies with the intent of displaying their viewpoints in a clearer way.

Filosofija. Sociologija, 2020

On the basis of Martin Buber’s philosophy, the article analyses the links between the dialogue and human existence. In the beginning of the first part, the definition of Buberian dialogue is analysed from the perspective of relation. This perspective shows that primary relations may be of twofold character because there is a constant fight between the two I and It. This shows that human existence is not static and undergoes a gradual development. It is also under constant evolvement and faces a choice. Consumer society and mass media are said to contribute to gradual establishment of the relation I–It, which results in a loss of direct interpersonal communication. In the second part of the article on the basis of the opposition between the dialogue and monologue, different ways of human existence are discussed. The opinion that a dialogic relation is a means for an individual to ascend from the inauthentic to authentic dimension of existence is substantiated. Thus, approaching a dia...

studies, yet few theorists explore its temporal dimension. Is dialogue an extended state of high quality mutuality? Or does it exist in important yet ephemeral moments of human meeting? This article reports on the contributions to communication theory that emerge from a close reading of a metadialogic conversational "text "-the landmark 1 957 meeting of Martin Buber and Carl Rogers. Although most commentators have described Buber and Rogers as disagreeing sharply, we argue that a coherent Buber-Rogers position emerged from their dialogue. Buber and Rogers, in their informal theoretical collaboration, theorize that mutuality-and, by extension, dialogue-is possible in role-unequal relationships in moments of meeting. We then discuss how this Buber-Rogers position prefigured the contemporary cultural tenor of postmodernism. Although not postmodernists themselves, Buber and Rogers helped to shape an intellectual climate in which key postmodern themes could flourish.

The present article analyzes imagined interactions in message selection and interpretation and in interpersonal relationships. Imagined interactions help develop cognitive structures. Distinctions between imagined interactions and fantasy are discussed as well as methodological procedures used to collect imagined interaction data.

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia

Notwithstanding the magisterial work of the psychologists H. H. Clark and A. Trognon 1 , in comparison with sociology and linguistics a veritable psychology of dialogue still remains little elaborated. This paper analyses epistemological obstacles facing such an enterprise, arguing that dialogue can not be understood as a 'window' on the individual mind. A vision of dialogue as a process of collective thinking, with the exchange as the fundamental unit of analysis, is sketched out. Dialogue is a complex system, involving multidirectional relations between situational representations, communicative action and emergent thinking.

Human Studies, 2009

Although hailing from cognate analytical schools, the contributors to Hedwig te Molder and Jonathan Potter's edited volume Conversation and Cognition hold a remarkable diversity of views on the nature of ''mental states'' and their import for the purposes of analyzing naturally occurring interaction. I offer a critical analysis of some of the contributors' discussions of cognition in social interaction in an effort to clarify some obstinate issues with respect to the meanings of words in our cognitive vocabulary (e.g. ''thought'' and ''realization'') and their identification in analyses of conversation. Keywords Conversation analysis Á Discursive psychology Á Ethnomethodology Á Human mentality Á Meaning Á Wittgenstein What is the relationship between thinking and speaking, between mind and language? While these are central questions for philosophical psychology, in Conversation and Cognition, they are uniquely addressed through the empirical examination of naturally occurring human interaction. Conversation and Cognition is an important book, with many virtues. In the past, the possible relations between pragmatic analyses of naturally occurring talk and cognitive accounts of human action have been unclear at best. Many analysts of conversation have preferred to examine the local organization of talk with a principled indifference to the kinds of questions of inner causes or cognitive mechanisms that motivate work in psychology and cognitive science. Rarely have they made explicit their stance on the existence or nature of speakers' mental states and processes or their possible role in human interaction. Thus, this volume should

Studies in Philosophy and Education , 2024

This paper seeks to initiate a theory of "imaginative dialogues" by articulating four dialogical principles that enable such a dialogue to occur. It is part of a larger project that takes the Socratic dialogue, a widely utilized conversation technique in philosophy education, as a starting point and aims to reinterpret it by shifting emphasis to the pre-reflective, prelinguistic, and multimodal aspects of dialogues, involving both their verbal and embodied dimensions. To integrate the verbal dimensions of a dialogue with its more elusive embodied dimensions, the paper will examine the notion 'dialogue' from the perspective of two different strategies. The first strategy chiefly focuses on the dialogic encounter. The 'inbetween' of this dialogic encounter enables something to emerge that transcends the individual perspective of the speakers involved. The second strategy is primarily concerned with internal differentiation. The minor differences that constitute this internal differentiation, differentiate a dialogue from within. These strategies are not mutually exclusive but indicate a variation in starting point and orientation. This paper proposes to combine these two strategies by linking accounts of the productive moments in verbal dialogues to an account of the imaginative potential of embodied dialogues. This will enable the articulation of four dialogical principles (derived from Lev Yakubinsky, Oswald Ducrot, Martin Buber, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) through which an imaginative dialogue can proceed.

Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, ISSN2249-9598, 2013

The present paper is an attempt to further the discussion initiated by Saraswati Haider(1998)on Dialogue as method for collection of ‘authentic’ data in social studies. In this attempt, the paper derives its theoretical framework from Martin Buber’s conceptualization of Dialogue as an ‘I-Thou’ encounter with the ‘other’ and attempts to search for the possibilities of ‘dialogue as method’. After a brief discussion of Buber’s understanding of Dialogue, the possibility of dialogue being more than a method has been explored. Further, an exploration of the relation between the self and the ‘other’ can be understood in dialogue and the involvement of the whole being in such a relation has been done. This is followed by a discussion of the concern about ethical in dialogue and the possibility of writing dialogically.