Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically

by Per Linell

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linköping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talk-in-interaction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include iApproaching Dialoguei (1998), iThe Written Language Bias in Linguisticsi (2005) and iDialogue in Focus Groupsi (2007, with I. Marková, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).

514 pages, Paperback

First published January 19, 2009

About the author

Professor in the interdisciplinary (thematic) research organisation in Communication Studies (tema K) at Linköping University 1981-2005 and in Language and Culture (Linköping) 2006-2011. Senior professor in Communication at Göteborg University (Department of education, Communication and Learning) 2011–2015, and since then Professor emeritus there. PhDhc at Helsinki university in 2014.