[ecrea] New book: Action and Agency in Dialogue

>Benjamins Publishing announces :
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>Action and Agency in Dialogue
>Passion, incarnation and ventriloquism
>
>by François Cooren, Université de Montréal
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>With a foreword by Bruno Latour
>
>What happens when people communicate or dialogue 
>with each other? ! is is the daunting question 
>that this book proposes to address by starting 
>from a controversial hypothesis: What if human 
>interactants were not the only ones to be 
>considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as 
>"doing things with words"? ! at is, what if 
>other "things" could also be granted the status 
>of agents in a dialogical situation? Action and 
>Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation, and 
>ventriloquism proposes to explore this unique 
>hypothesis by mobilizing metaphorically the notion of ventriloquism.
>
>According to this ventriloqual perspective, 
>interactions are never purely local, but 
>dislocal, that is, they constantly mobilize 
>figures (collectives, principles, values, 
>emotions, etc.) that incarnate themselves in 
>people's discussions. ! is highly original book, 
>which develops the analytical, practical and 
>ethical dimensions of such a theoretical 
>positioning, may be of interest to communication 
>scholars, linguists, sociologists, conversation 
>analysts, management and organizational 
>scholars, as well as philosophers interested in language, action and ethics.
>
>http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DS%206

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