Spaces of Polyphony -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations -- Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue -- 1. Strategy and creativity from a dialogical perspective -- 2. Interactions as activities and the predictability of responses within them -- 3. Intentionality -- 4. Reprise -- Appendix: Transcription symbols (from Fitch and Sanders, 2005) -- Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. The complaint sequence -- 3.1 The preface sequence: initiation of complaint/criticism -- 3.2 The telling sequence: Description of transgression -- 3.3 The response sequence: Ironic evaluation -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendix I: Original examples -- Appendix II: Transcription system -- Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 2.1 The corpus -- 2.2 Nature of the interactive setting -- 2.3 The kind of humour evidenced in the data -- 2.4 Questions of methodology -- 3. Theoretical framework -- 3.1 The double voicing theory -- 4. Data analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix I: Data in French -- Appendix II: Conventions of transcription -- Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning -- Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Children's self words -- 3. Pronominal reversal -- 3. The third person -- 4. The second person -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialogues -- 1. The concept of formulation -- 2. Research data -- 3. Analysis: Use of formulation in dialogue -- 4. Structured sequences of actions including formulations -- 5. Cultural presuppositions of formulations -- 6. Consequences for polyphonic dialogue -- 7. Conclusions.

Transcription conventions -- Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices -- 1. A new representation of education -- 2. The relevance of intertextuality in educational discourse -- 3. Method and data -- 4. Observing the paradox, a monophonic approach to the promotion of polyphony -- 4.1 Resisting the course of action: Non conforming-answers -- 4.2 Playing with intertextuality. The failure of a rhetorical device -- 5. Conclusions. On the limits of educating towards autonomy -- Annex 1: Italian originals of examples 1 & 2 -- Annex 2: Transcription conventions -- Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 U.S. Spanish heritage speakers and linguistic identity -- 2.2 Identity, discourse and context -- 3. Research questions -- 4. Ideologies of linguistic legitimacy and authenticity -- 5. Co-construction of identities in the classroom -- 5.1 The teacher-fronted context -- 5.2 The small-group context -- 4. Conclusion and implications -- Appendix -- Transcription conventions -- Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics -- Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms of polyphony that occur in polemics -- 3. Strategies of conflicting polyphony used in political debate -- 3.1 Rejection of the opponent's comments -- 3.2 Quotation -- 3.3 Echo reply -- 3.4 Manipulation of the opponent's discourse -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendix: Original version of the long excerpts -- Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A typology of metacommunicative criticisms in parliamentary answers -- 2.1 Repetition of the question -- 2.2 Redirection of the question.

2.3 Distortion of facts and opinions -- 2.3 The violation of felicity conditions of speech acts -- 2.5 Inappropriateness of the question -- 2.6 Breach of the rules of the sub-genre of the question−answer session -- 2.7 Digression and topic conflation -- 2.8 Inconsistency -- 2.9 Unsubstantiated claims or accusations -- 2.10 Incomprehensibility -- 2.11 Improper attitude -- 3. The interactional role of metacommunicative criticisms -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-show -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological problems -- 3. Data -- 4. Analyses -- 4.1 Repeating what the guest said -- 4.1.2 "Is he 'immune'?" -- 4.2 Ironising reactions -- 4.3 Mimicking -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Rumors and other voices of third parties -- 3.2 Quotations of the guest's prior statements -- 3.3 Echoing of the guest's words completed "inside" the current interaction -- 3.4 Reporting the guest's hypothetical prior dialogues -- 3.5 Allusions to shared knowledge of political discourse -- 3.6 Allusions to the shared knowledge of the rules of the genre -- 4. Conclusion -- Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality -- Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characteristics of rumour -- 2.1 Pragmatic dimensions of rumour -- 2.2 Linguistic dimensions of rumour -- 3. Rumour as a polyphonic phenomenon -- 3.1 The polyphonic structure of utterances containing rumours -- 3.2 The sources of rumour -- 3.3 Rumour introduction formulae -- 3.4 Polyphonic techniques in the analysis of press text -- 4. Conclusions -- Appendix: Original version of the long excerpts -- Sources.

Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatability -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is to be done, then? -- 3. Pragma-stylistic analysis -- 3.1 Cassian's valise-expressions -- 3.2 The mechanism of metabola -- 4. Translation analysis -- 5. A project of a peritextual dialogue in translating poetry -- 5. 1 A profile of the peritextual dialogue -- 5.2 An example -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textiles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structural voice of the textile -- 3. Voices in structural fields of the textile -- 4. Embedded voices in the textile -- 5. The voice of the community -- 6. The family discourse -- 7. Individual authorship -- 8. Performing the text -- 9. Intertexts -- Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse -- Chapter 15. "Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people": Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O'Brien's comic writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Storytelling and the rules of conversation -- 2.1 Gricean rules -- 2.2 Politeness -- 3. From nestling to wrestling: The breakdown of cooperative dialogue -- 4. Agonistic dialogue as a rule? -- 4.1 Diglossia -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourse -- 1. Introduction. Is poetry a monophonic genre? -- 2. The eighties - a poetics of polyphonic enunciation -- 3. Ethos: (Self)construction of the enunciator's identity -- 4. Reported discourse -- 4.1 The direct reported discourse (DRD) -- 4.2 Indirect reported discourse (IRD) -- 4.3 Parody and heteroglossia -- 5. The text's ontology -- 6. Conclusions -- Sources -- Appendix -- Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The palimpsestic nature of irony -- 1.2 Ironic communication and literariness -- 2. Romanian poetry in the 1990s and the reinvention of postmodernism.

2.1 Parodic stylization and polyphonic configuration in Caius Dobrescu's Dear Comrades. A Speech by Nicolae Ceausescu, Allen Ginsberg and Janis Joplin or a Requiem for the Sixties -- 3. Conclusions -- Sources -- Appendix -- Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues -- 1. Reasons for studying interior monologues -- 1.2 Interior monologue as a literary technique -- 2. Polyphony as dialogism in interior monologues -- 2.1 Polyphony and disidentity of the person -- 2.2 The corpus -- 2.3 Method of text analysis: Linguistic indices of polyphony -- 2.4 Main results: Forms of polyphony and disidentity in interior monologues -- 3. Towards a dialogical theory of the inner world -- Appendix -- General references -- Index.