HISTORICAL DIALOGUE ANALYSIS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Historical Dialogue Analysis Roots and Traditions in the Study of the Romance Languages, German and English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Romance linguistics: The history of spoken language and dialogue analysis -- 2.1. Research on Spoken Language -- 2.2. Contemporary French Dialogue Analysis: Subjectivity in Language -- 2.3. Historical Dialogue Analysis -- 3. German Studies: From the history of spoken German to the evolution of dialogue forms -- 3.1. Literary studies -- 3.2. The history of spoken German -- 3.3. The history of rhetoric -- 3.4. The historical extension of speech act theory and the theory of language games -- 4. English studies: Pragmaticization and computerization of English historical linguistics -- 4.1. The pragmaticization of English historical linguistics -- 4.2. Computerization and sociohistorical corpus studies in English historical linguistics -- 5. Outlook and conclusion -- References -- Ritual Levelling The Balance between the Eristic and the Contractual Motive in Hostile Verbal Encounters in Medieval Romance and Early Modern Drama -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ritual conflict and contract formation in mediaeval romance -- 2.1. Close encounters of the antagonistic kind -- 2.2. Seeking and hiding information as a "language-game " -- 2.3. The challenging ritual as a multilayered speech encounter -- 2.4. The literary challenging ritual as a mimetic representation of reality -- 3. The contract-by-conflict procedure in rhetorical stage-plays -- 3.1. Ritual contract formation in sinneken dialogues -- 3.2. Round One: The projection of joint action -- 3.3. Round Two: Offensive behaviour as an identification device -- 3.4. Round Three: Rating the dupe -- 3.5. Round Four: Heading for concerted action.

Sources of quoted text fragments -- References -- The Pragmatic Form of Religious Controversies around 1600 A Case Study in the Osiander vs. Scherer & Rosenbusch Controversy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Osiander vs. Scherer & Rosenbusch 1585-89 -- 3. Forms of communication and the "communicative budget" in historical pragmatics -- 4. Religious controversies with pamphlets -- 4.1. A "monks ' squabble " or public debate? -- 4.2. Opponents, pairs, parties and the audience -- 4.3. Global organization of pamphlets and textual elements -- 4.4. Threads of controversy and dialogical connections -- 4.5. A ims and intentions -- (i) Defending one's personal honour -- (ii) Defending the honour of one's own group -- (iii) Finding the truth/settling disputes - the problem of hard-nosed opponents -- (iv) Publishing one's opinions and claims - influence on public opinion -- (v) Influencing the public appearance of one's own group -- 4.6. The repertoire of linguistic acts -- 4.7. Principles of communication in controversies -- 5. Further perspectives -- Notes -- Sources -- References -- The Use of Dialogue in Early German Pamphlets On the Constitution of Public Involvement in the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn Controversy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Summary of the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn controversy -- 3. Establishment of the text reference -- 4. Dialogue in monologue -- 5. Indication of contradictions in pamphlets by the same author -- 6. Increasing dominance of the relationship aspect -- 6.1. Defence of honour -- 6.2. Attacks of a similar vein -- 6.2.1. Material interest -- 6.2.2. The opponent accused of provoking the controversy -- 6.2.3. Assurance of their own goodwill, deception by the opponent -- 6.2.4. The opponent accused of breaching confidence -- 6.3. Mutual accusations of incompetence -- 6.4. Personal attacks -- 6.5. Increasing aggression in word and illustration.

7. Dialogical structures of public discussion created by printed works -- Notes -- Sources and abbreviations -- Pfefferkorn (standardized titles): -- Johannes Reuchlin: -- References -- The Polite Answer in Pre-modern German Conversation Culture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structure and basis of pre-modern answer-compliments -- 3. Reply strategies in genres -- 3.1. On the typology of replies -- 3.2. Politeness strategies in answers -- 4. On historical changes to prescribed reply behaviour -- Notes -- References -- Minnegespräche Die galante Konversation in der frühen deutschen Lyrik -- Abstract -- Anmerkungen -- Quellen und Textausgaben -- Forschungsliteratur -- On the Fringes of Interaction The Dawn-Song as a "Linguistic Routine" of Parting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structure of Medieval Dawn Songs -- 3. The Function of Dawn Songs -- 4. The Dawn Song Passage in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (III, 1415-1533) -- 5. The Dawn Song Passage in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (III, v, 1-59) -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Refugíate in a strange countrey Learning English through Dialogues in the 16th Century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A very profitable boke and Familiar Dialogues -- 3. How might the dialogues have been used? Learning and teaching goals -- 4. The socio-historical framework of English language teaching in 16th century London -- 5. The Spanish immigrant community in London and their need to learn English -- References -- Dialogues in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Medical Writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialogues and dialogic elements in written discourse -- 3. Traditions of medieval and early modern medical dialogues -- 3.1. Philosophical dialogues -- 3.2. Scientific writing in question-answer form: the scholastic formula -- 3.3. Mimetic dialogues in handbooks: conversational structure.

4. A survey of early English medical dialogues -- 4.1. The late medieval period -- 4.2. Early modern period -- 4.2.1. The scholastic question-answer formula -- 4.2.2. Mimetic dialogues -- 5. Evolution and Intertextuality -- 6. Audience -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Texts -- References -- A Late Medieval French Bargain Dialogue (Pathelin II) Or: Further Remarks on the History of Dialogue Forms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data problem: Representation of verbal interaction, not reproduction of everyday talk -- 3. Common designations of dialogue forms: Verbs, not nouns -- 4. Dialogue forms and institutional contexts: The "force" {vertu) of words -- 5. Communication principles: Bargaining and promising -- 6. Thematic elements and dialogue patterns -- 7. Conclusion: What changes in the history of bargaining? -- Notes -- Sources -- French Dictionaries -- Encyclopedic Dictionaries -- References -- Modifying Pragmatic Force Hedges in Early Modern English Dialogues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus -- 3. Hedges, hedging and corpus searching -- 4. Frequencies -- 4.1. The grand total -- 4.2. Text-type totals -- 4.3. Ranking hedges in terms of frequency -- 4.4. Specific hedges -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- So he says to her, he says, "Well," he says...: Multiple Dialogue Introducers from a Historical Perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Examples of multiple dialogue introducers -- 2.1. Examples of the first type of multiple dialogue introducer -- 2.2. Examples of the second type of multiple dialogue introducer -- 3. The discourse functions of multiple dialogue introducers -- 3.1. The function of multiple dialogue introducers in oral communication -- 3.2. Textual functions of multiple dialogue introducers -- 4. Narrative functions of multiple dialogue introducers -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Que fais', Adam? Questions and Seduction in the Jeu d'Adam -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anrede und Erwiderung - 'Question and answer' -- 3. Questions as dialogue acts -- 4. Types of interrogative acts -- 4.1. Interrogative acts containing orientation -- 4.2. Loaded interrogative acts -- 4.3. Rhetorical questions -- 4.4. Echo-questions -- 4.5. Focusing interrogative acts -- 5. Questions and the type of dialogue -- 6. Some final remarks -- Notes -- References -- Dialoge im Rechtsprotokoll Ein Wetzlarer Erbstreit a. 1309 und die Entstehung einer neuen Textsorte -- Abstract -- 1. Mittelalterliche Dialoge in nicht-fiktionalen Texten -- 2. Der Rechtsfall -- 3. Konfigurierung des Textes -- 3.1 Anpassung an das Urkunden-Modell -- 3.2 Protokollierung der Parteipositionen -- 3.3 Umstrukturierung und Konfiguration der Endfassung -- 4. Struktur der Dialogsequenzen -- 5. Veränderungen im Fassungsvergleich -- 5.1 Schreibvarianten -- 5.2 Korrektur von Schreibfehlern -- 5.3 Reformulierungen -- 5.4 Markierung der direkten Reden im Text -- 6. Textfunktionen der direkten Rede bei der Protokollherstellung -- 7. Textualisierte Mündlichkeit und Rechtsprotokoll -- Danksagung -- Anmerkungen -- Literatur -- Court Records and Cartoons Reflections of Spontaneous Dialogue in Early Romance Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Orality, literacy, and historical dialogue research -- 3. Court records -- 3.1. The data -- 3.2. Analysis of conceptional aspects -- 3.3. Motivation for writing characterised by linguistic immediacy -- 4. Cartoons -- 4.1. The data -- 4.2. Analysis of conceptional aspects -- 4.3. Motivation for writing characterised by linguistic immediacy -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Dialogue and Violence The Inca Atahualpa meets Fray Vicente de Valverde (Cajamarca, Peru, 16th November 1532) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sources -- 3. Historical background.

4. Presentations of the event.