Language and Social Interaction at Home and School

As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is "e;the architecture of intersubjectivity"e;: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds. The volume advances and empirically illustrates the role of talk-in-interaction in displaying, ratifying, creating yet also defying the crucial dimensions of the world we live in. This process is particularly noticea...