CMC Computer Mediated Communication is one of the catchwords of modern society. The importance of the Internet grows dramatically from year to year in more or less all disciplines. This volume contains the papers (12 contributions in English and 6 in German) read at an international meeting of the IADA (International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Bologna) in Erlangen, April 23, 1998. There were two sections at the conference, one dealt with the new means of electronic communication, mainly with E-Mail communication and with Internet Relay Chat (IRC), the other, more traditional, dealt with dialogues on television and the radio, or with specific aspects of Mass Media communication.

Frontmatter -- History Lessons: Telegraph, Telephone, and Email as Social Discourse -- Dialogue in the Grip of the Media -- Ein Privatbrief auf E-mail: immer noch ein Brief oder eher eine Plauderei? -- Substitution of Paraverbal and Nonverbal Cues in the Written Medium of IRC -- Der Faktor Sprache im unendlichen Daten(t)raum. Eine linguistische Betrachtung von Dialogen im Internet Relay Chat -- Turn-Verteilung in synchroner computervermittelter Kommunikation: eine Frage der medialen Rahmenbedingungen oder der sozialen Regulierung? -- Czech on the Network: Written or Spoken Interaction? -- Interaktion und Interaktivität in Hypermedia -- Interactivity in Language Learning: The Multimedia Classroom -- Dialogue Analysis and Multimedia Translation -- Address Inversion and Teknonymy as Involvement Markers in an Italian Talk Show -- Dialogues and Drama. The Dutch Homeless Theatre Project as a Case -- Intonation and Related Vocal Phenomena in Mass-Media Debates -- Die dialogische Bedeutungskomponente von Modalpartikeln -- Dialogic Characteristics of Political and Public Debates -- The Head-Line and its Function in Press Interviews -- Der Dialog zwischen den nationalen Minderheiten und der Bevölkerungsmehrheit in den Medien (Das Beispiel Rumäniens) -- Conflict, Crisis, and Catastrophe. Cultural Codes and Media Management in Environmental Conflicts: the Case of Water