The Conversation Frame

1. List of contributors; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Part I. Introduction; 4. Fictive interaction and the conversation frame: An overview (by Pascual, Esther); 5. Fictive interaction and the nature of linguistic meaning (by Sandler, Sergeiy); 6. Part II. Fictive interaction as cognitive reality; 7. Generic integration templates for fictive communication (by Pagan Canovas, Cristobal); 8. Real, imaginary, or fictive?: Philosophical dialogues in an early Daoist text and its pictorial version (by Xiang, Mingjian); 9. Silent abstractions versus "Look at me" drawings: Corpus evidence that artworks' subject matter affects their fictive speech (by Sullivan, Karen); 10. Part III. Fictive interaction as discourse structure; 11. Persuading and arguing with the reader: Fictive interaction as discourse organizing device in witchcraft pamphlet prefaces (1566-1621) (by Chaemsaithong, Krisda); 12. Invocation or apostrophe?: Prayer and the conversation frame in public discourse (by FitzGerald, William); 13. On discourse-motivated "sorries": Fictive apologies in English, Hungarian, and Romanian (by Demeter, Gusztav); 14. Part IV. Fictive interaction as linguistic construction; 15. What about?: Fictive question-answer pairs for non-information-seeking functions across signed languages (by Jarque Moyano, Maria Josep); 16. Fictive questions in conditionals?: Synchronic and diachronic evidence from German and English (by Leuschner, Torsten); 17. Intonation of fictive vs. actual direct speech in a Brazilian Portuguese corpus (by Matos Rocha, Luiz Fernando); 18. Polish nominal construction involving fictive interaction: Its scope and functions in discourse (by Krolak, Emilia); 19. Evidential fictive interaction (in Ungarinyin and Russian) (by Spronck, Stef); 20. Recursive inflection and grammaticalized fictive interaction in the southwestern Amazon (by Voort, Hein van der); 21. Part V. Fictive interaction as communicative strategy; 22. "Say hello to this ad": The persuasive rhetoric of fictive interaction in marketing (by Brandt, Line); 23. The use of interactive structures as communicative strategy in Dutch and Portuguese aphasic speakers (by Versluis, Christine); 24. Echolalia as communicative strategy: Fictive interaction in the speech of children with autism (by Dornelas, Aline); 25. About the contributors; 26. Author index; 27. Language index; 28. Subject index