1. Preface; 2. Historical Dialogue Analysis: Roots and Traditions in the Study of the Romance Languages, German and English (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 3. Ritual Levelling: The Balance between the Eristic and the Contractual Motive in Hostile verbal Encounters in Medieval Romance and Early Modern Drama (by Bax, Marcel); 4. The Pragmatic Form of Religious Controversies around 1600: A Case Study in the Osiander vs. Schrerer & Rosenbusch Controversy; 5. The Use of Dialogue in Early German Pamphlets: On the Constitution of Public Involvement in the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn Controversy (by Schwitalla, Johannes); 6. The Polite Answer in Pre-modern German Conversation Culture (by Beetz, Manfred); 7. Minnegesprache: Die galante Konversation in der Fruhen deutschen Lyrik (by Kastner, Hannes); 8. On the Fringes of Interaction: The Dawn-Song as a "Linguistic Routine" of Parting (by Honegger, Thomas); 9. Refugiate in a strange countrey: Learning English through Dialogues in the 16th Century (by Watts, Richard J.); 10. Dialogues in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Medical Writing (by Taavitsainen, Irma); 11. A Late Medieval French Bargain Dialogue (Pathelin II), Or: Further Remarks on the History of Dialogue Forms (by Lebsanft, Franz); 12. Modifying Pragmatic Force: Hedges in Early Modern English Dialogues (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 13. So he says to her, he says, "Well", he says...: Multiple Dialogue Introducers from a Historical Perspective (by Herlyn, Anne); 14. Que fais, Adam?: Questions and Seduction in the Jeu d'Adam (by Schrott, Angela); 15. Dialoge im Rechtsprotokoll: Ein Wetzlarer Erbstreit a. 1309 und die Entstehung einer neuen Textsorte (by Ramge, Hans); 16. Court Records and Cartoons: Reflections of Spontaneous Dialogue in Early Romance Texts (by Koch, Peter); 17. Dialogue and Violence: The Inca Atahualpa meets Fray Vicente de Valverde (Cajamarca, Peru 16 November, 1532) (by Oesterreicher, Wulf); 18. Index
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