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Colin B. Grant (ed.), Rethinking communicative interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2006

José Antonio Flores Farfán
José Antonio Flores Farfán
Affiliation:
CIESAS, Tlalpan 14000, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, [email protected]
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Colin B. Grant (ed.), Rethinking communicative interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. 325. Hb, $95.

Reading Rethinking communicative interaction (henceforth RCI), I realized that the final word of the subtitle, “horizons,” is an accurate allusion to the main difficulty and contribution of the book: the quest for interdisciplinarity. RCI advances the idea of communication as a fiction; the same applies to interdisciplinarity, a commonplace in the social sciences to which RCI at least contributes a “programme,” as Colin Grant suggests in his Introduction, acknowledging the difficulties of “pluri-disciplinariety.” A wealth of sources to advance such an ambitious project is presented. RCI develops key methods to fulfill the interdisciplinary endeavor: ways of bridging the macro and micro gap by studying the connection of the self's participation in the social construction of the communicative process and the interplay between linguistic and biological facts in human evolution and language acquisition, among others.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , November 2006 , pp. 738 - 741
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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