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The volume assembles papers dealing with various sectors of dialogue research: 1. rhetoric and argumentation (including dialogue and argumentation in scientific and scholarly works and teaching manuals), 2. the semiotics of dialogue (oral and written, non-verbal communication, including Internet communication and the role of the electronic media), 3. linguistic perspectives on dialogue analysis (grammar, semantics, phonetics), 4. dialogue and institutions (school, therapy, police, lawcourts), 5. dialogue in politics and the mass media, 6. dialogue in the arts (literature, drama, film, music).