A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology
Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University
Trust has a constituent role in human societies. It has been treated as a scientific topic in many
disciplines. Yet, despite the fact that trust and distrust come to life primarily in human
communication and through language, it has seldom been analyzed from a communicative or
linguistic perspective. This is the theme of this path-breaking volume.
This volume contains 12 chapters, plus introduction and epilogue by the editors. They have been
authored by leading specialists on trust in language and communication, coming from many
disciplines and from different cultures and countries. Most of the authors share a conceptual
basis in dialogical theories.
This book is a follow-up volume to two previous volumes on trust within cultural psychology, Trust and Distrust (Marková & Gillespie,
2008) and Trust and Conflict (Marková & Gillespie, 2012). It will be of interest to anyone seriously interested in trust in societies, and
in trust and distrust as displayed in communication and language.