In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.
Su(m)imasen and gomen nasai: Linguistic devices marking Japanese apology expressions and emotivity Roxana Sandu 339 – 362
Epistolarity: From hidden dialogue to an obsession to dialogue Isabel Roboredo Seara 363 – 374
Understanding audience affiliation in response to political speeches in Japan Ofer Feldman and Peter Bull 375 – 397
Advice-giving and disputant empowerment in divorce mediation sessions Angela Cora Garcia 398 – 426
Texts-in-dialogues: The communicative constitution of media ideologies through family ordinary talk Letizia Caronia 427 – 448
Follow-up questions in White House press briefings: Metacommunication in cohesion and framing Christoph Schubert 449 – 463
Discussion Article
Recent developments in HCI: Implementing cultural models in human–computer interaction Sebastian Feller 465 – 478
Book Reviews
Handford, Michael. 2010. The Language of Business Meetings Reviewed by Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring 479 – 483
Hermans, Hubert and Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka. 2010. Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and counter-positioning in a globalizing society. Reviewed by Gergana Vitanova 484 – 492
Book Notices
Korta, Kepa and John Perry. 2011. Critical Pragmatics. An inquiry into reference and communication Reviewed by Eckhard Rolf 493 – 495
De Fina, Anna and Alexandra Georgakopoulou. 2011. Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives Reviewed by Ilker Yengin 496 – 498
Dancygier, Barbara. 2012. The Language of Stories, A Cognitive Approach Reviewed by Natalia Shchyhlevska 499 – 500