Related approaches

Abstract

AbstractThe main goal of the book is to show that interlocutors draw on two contrasting principles of discourse organization. On the one hand, they rely on the nearly unlimited resources available in sentence grammar; on the other hand, they draw on the more limited potential offered by interactive grammar. As this chapter reveals, this is not a new perspective; rather, it surfaces in a range of different frameworks of linguistic analysis. And, as is emphasized in this chapter, much the same perspective has also been presented in academic domains other than linguistics. In particular, a parallel distinction has been displayed in neurological research on differential activity in the two hemispheres of the human brain. And similarly important correlations have been pointed out in social psychology in work on the structure of reasoning and judgment processes.