‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of human cognitive processing. Since, however, this field is shared by an increasing body of disciplines, perspective terms have also acquired specific and technical meanings. A striking example is the newly introduced use of ‘perspectivation’ in discourse analysis.This volume on ‘perspective and perspectivation’ - the first of its kind - will help to fill the gap between the common understanding of perspective and the specifics of its structure and dynamics as they have been elaborated in the human sciences, mainly in psychology and linguistics. The focus is on the structure of perspectivity in cognition and language, and the dynamics of setting and taking perspectives in social interaction and in the construction and understanding of texts. Both topics are presented here in an interdisciplinary way by a group of linguists and psychologists.Table of ContentsPerspective and perspectivation in discourse: An introduction Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer 1 A. Perspectivity: Structure and functions Knowledge and perspective setting: What possible consequences on conversation do we have to expect? Klaus Foppa 15 Explicit and implicit perspectivity Carl Friedrich Graumann 25 Perspectives, implicitness and recontextualization Per Linell 41 uaestio and L-perspectivation Christiane Stutterheim and Wolfgang Klein 57 Grammaticalization of perspectivity Gisela Zifonun 87 B. Perspectivation in discourse and interaction Verbal practices of perspective grounding Werner Kallmeyer 111 Perspectivity and professional role in verbal interaction Inken Keim 141 “You can say you to yourself” • Establishing perspectives with personal pronouns Ursula Bredel 165 Strategic uses of self and other perspectives Alissa Shethar 179 Irony, quotation, and other forms of staged intertextuality: Double or contrastive perspectivation in conversation Helga Kotthoff 199 C. Perspectivity: Differences and divergences Social discrimination and aggression: A matter of perspective-specific divergence? Sabine Otten and Amélie Mummendey 231 Perspective-related differences in interpretations of injustice in close relationships Gerold Mikula 249 Perspectivity in dialogues involving people with cerebral palsy Ivana Markova and Sarah Collins 261 Perspective-dependent attributions in court: An investigation into closing speeches with the Linguistic Category Model Jeannette Schmid 285 D. Perspectivity in reconstructive genres Point of view, narrative mode and the constitution of narrative texts Peter Canisius 305 Global and local aspects of perspectivity Uta M. uasthoff 321 Perspectivity in reported dialogues. The contextualization of evaluative stances in reconstructing speech Susanne Günthner 345 The role of the narrative perspective in the cognitive-cultural context Janos Laszlo and Tibor Pólya 373