The Iada 2020 - Discourse, Dialogicity & Dialogue is a multidisciplinary discussion of prospects and limits of mediating human culture(s) through dialogue.
Topics
Dialogue in (public) social institutions (media, politics, business, healthcare, courts, science, education, religion, family, etc.);
(new) genres and modalities of dialogue;
Multilingual and intercultural dialogue;
Narratives in dialogue;
Searching for common ground in communication;
Pragmatics, semantics and rhetoric of dialogue;
Positioning in dialogue; heteroglossia and polyphony of voices in dialogue;
(un)certainty and knowledge in dialogue: negotiating, deliberating and establishing social facts; argument structure; commitment to truth and obligation, etc.;
Conflict management and problem-solving in mediation, arbitration, social consultations, counselling, therapy, etc.; dialogue in peace-making, peace-building and peace-keeping;
Tension or complementariness between/within local and global, contemporary and historical, modern and traditional interactive patterns;
