Dialogical Networks

Bringing together two decades of work by the authors, this book shows how the concept of the dialogical network developed and outlines the key characteristics of dialogical networks, demonstrating the importance of historical contingency in our knowledge of them and highlighting the fact that 'doing history' is part of research.

This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian, connecting contemporary work to foregoing studies. As such, this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities.

Autorentext

Ivan Leudar is Emeritus Professor of Historical Psychology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity and co-editor of Against Theory of Mind and Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy.

Jií Nekvapil is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. His research has been influenced by poststructuralist linguistics and ethnomethodology.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Reporting Political Arguments 3. Reflection 1: The First Steps From 'Context Selection' to Dialogical Networks 4. On the Emergence of Political Identity in Czech Mass Media: The Case of Democratic Party of Sudetenland 5. On Dialogical Networks: Arguments about the Migration Law in Czech Mass Media in 1993 6. On Membership Categorisation: 'Us', 'Them'and 'Doing Violence' in Political Discourse 7. Reflection 2: On Historical Contextualisations in Dialogical Networks Project 8. The War on Terror and Muslim Britons' Safety: A Week in the Life of a Dialogical Network 9. Reflection 3: Continuities, Novelties and Dissociations 10. Practical Historians and Adversaries: 9/11 Revisited 11. A Day in the Life of a Dialogical Network The Case of Czech Currency Devaluation 12. Reflection 4: Multiplication and Emergent Meanings 13. Conclusion