The topic refers on the one hand to the central problem of 'Dialogue Analysis' which is to discover a new, communicatively functioning unit after having left behind the unit of the sentence which can be considered the unit par excellence of structural linguistics.

Inhalt: The General Problem: E. Weigand, The Unit beyond the Sentence. - L. Pop, Un continuum: de la phrase au phrasage. A la recherche d'unités dans le discours. - Specific Aspects: C. Bazzanella, Repetition in Pre-School Children's Narratives. - A. Capone, Invito allo Studio del Dialogo. - S. Contento/S. Stame, Scripts and Transcriptions in Dialogue Analysis. - F. Danes, Observations about the Sound Shape of Spontaneous Discourses. - G. Fritz, Coreference in Dialogue. - E.W.B. Hess-Lüttich, Gotthelf's Didactic Dialogues: The "Uli"-Novels and Films. - F. Hundsnurscher, Repetition Reconsidered. - L. Ionescu Ruxandoiu, Pre-exchanges as a Conversational Strategy. - C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Le traitement des actes de langage en analyse des conversations: l'exemple du remerciement. - D. Laroche-Bouvy, La conscience des normes au cours de l'interaction verbale. - A. Lefebvre, Hétéroprise et mimétisme. - B. Naumann, IRCs: schriftliche Sonderformen von Mehrpersonengesprächen. - E. Pietri, Le Dialogue et la Traduction. - A. Rothkegel, Globale und lokale Aspekte der Dialogstruktur. - J. Schön, De ce qui, dans le dialogue, défie la grammaire: l'exemple du datif éthique. - A. Serbanescu, Switches from Yes/No-questions to WH-questions. - M. Srpová, L'expressivité et la relation entre participants de communication interlinguale et interculturelle. - M. Stamenov, Going beyond the Sentence or What Does it Take to (Re)Construct the Subject? - G. Tonfoni, CPP-TRS: A Universal Grammar for Communicative Interaction. - H. Walter, Le dialogue à la télévision. - H. Westheide, Book reviews between Scholarship and Business: An Investigation of Dutch and German Book Reviews in the Press. - Bibliography of the Works of Sorin Stati.