The topic of this volume was discussed at a Round Table of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) at the University of Bologna in March 1995. The Round Table was intended to make a scientific contribution in honour of the president's 65th birthday. 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. On the other hand, it includes the manifold units, relations, and strategies, i.e. the specific problems of dialogue analysis.

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.