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In linguistics, discourse analysis, and related fields, an interlocutor is a person involved in a conversation or dialogue. Two or more people speaking to one another are each other's interlocutors. [1] [2] The terms conversation partner, [3] hearer, [4] or addressee [5] are often used interchangeably with interlocutor.
[1] [2] Argumentation includes various forms of dialogue such as deliberation and negotiation which are concerned with collaborative decision-making procedures. [3] It also encompasses eristic dialog, the branch of social debate in which victory over an opponent is the primary goal, and didactic dialogue used for teaching. [2]
Medieval debate poetry was a genre of poems popular in England and France during the late medieval period. The same type of debate poems broadly existed in the ancient and medieval Near Eastern literatures. Essentially, a debate poem depicts a dialogue between two natural opposites (e.g. sun vs. moon, winter vs. summer). [1]
The Gish gallop (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ ʃ ˈ ɡ æ l ə p /) is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available. Gish galloping ...
In other words, writing did not respond to the interlocutor's questions, and this nullified the value of the philosophical dialogue where the two interlocutors seek truth together, with mutual questions and answers. A truth that, moreover, must always be questioned, and this is only possible with dialogue, in oral form, since what is written ...
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[2] Political science sees discourse as closely linked to politics [3] [4] and policy making. [5] Likewise, different theories among various disciplines understand discourse as linked to power and state, insofar as the control of discourses is understood as a hold on reality itself (e.g. if a state controls the media, they control the "truth").
In conversation analysis, turn-taking organization describes the sets of practices speakers use to construct and allocate turns. [1] The organization of turn-taking was first explored as a part of conversation analysis by Harvey Sacks with Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and their model is still generally accepted in the field.