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Chapter 4 - Embracing Polylogue

from Part I - Seeking, Seeing, and Embracing Polylogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2023

Marcin Lewiński
Affiliation:
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Mark Aakhus
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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This chapter investigates how scholars have previously challenged dyadic reductions and directly or indirectly embraced polylogue – often simply called “multiparty conversation” – as an alternative ontology for communication. The chapter is divided into two basic parts. First, the varied understandings of polylogue produced in the literature are discussed. This review reveals some key limitations of the extant literature on polylogues and clarifies terminological confusions. Second, drawing from a variety of relevant literature a nonexhaustive but compelling list of eleven polylogical facts instrumental to understanding what is at stake when people engage in polylogues is presented. These polylogical facts extend the framework by demonstrating both what is reduced in dyadic reductions of argumentation while the complex communicative phenomena that are at stake when people engage in polylogues.

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Argumentation in Complex Communication
Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue
, pp. 89 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Embracing Polylogue
  • Marcin Lewiński, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Argumentation in Complex Communication
  • Online publication: 22 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009274364.006
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  • Embracing Polylogue
  • Marcin Lewiński, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Argumentation in Complex Communication
  • Online publication: 22 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009274364.006
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  • Embracing Polylogue
  • Marcin Lewiński, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Argumentation in Complex Communication
  • Online publication: 22 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009274364.006
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