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Rethinking Language, Mind and World Dialogically : Interactional and contextual theories of human sense-making
01 Jan 2009-
TL;DR: In this article, Per Linell's Rethinking Language, Mind And World Dialogically represents a landmark in the development of a transdisciplinary dialogically based paradigm for the human sciences.
Abstract: A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University"This is a remarkable and highly original work on dialogism, dialogical theories and dialogue. With his erudite and broadly based scholarship PerLinell makes a path-breaking contribution to the study of the human mind, presenting a novel alternative to traditional monologism and exploring thedynamics of sense-making in different forms of interaction and communicative projects. Although Per Linell discusses complex dialogical concepts, the text is written with exceptional clarity, taking the reader through critique as well as appreciation of great intellectual traditions of our time."(Professor Ivana Markov, University of Stirling, U.K.)"Per Linells Rethinking Language, Mind And World Dialogically represents a landmark in the development ofa transdisciplinary dialogically basedparadigm for the human sciences. The author?'s lucid analysis and constructive rethinking ranges all the way from integrating explanations ofsignificant empirical contributions across the entire range of human sciences dealing with language, thought and communication to foundational, epistemological and ontological issues."(Professor Ragnar Rommetveit, University of Oslo, Norway)Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spokeninteraction, at the University of Link ping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduateschool in communication studies in Link ping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories inlinguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talk-in-interaction and institutionaldiscourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998), The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in FocusGroups (2007, with I. Markov, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).
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TL;DR: In this article, a range of features that are central to the constitution of human action are discussed, including language structure, prosody, and visible embodied displays, and the accumulation and differentiation through time within local co-operative transformation zones of dense substrates.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dialogical approach to study intersubjectivity at different levels, as both implicit and explicit, and both within and between individuals and groups, and make use of self-report, observing behaviour, analysing talk and ethnographic engagement.
Abstract: Intersubjectivity refers to the variety of possible relations between perspectives. It is indispensable for understanding human social behaviour. While theoretical work on intersubjectivity is relatively sophisticated, methodological approaches to studying intersubjectivity lag behind. Most methodologies assume that individuals are the unit of analysis. In order to research intersubjectivity, however, methodologies are needed that take relationships as the unit of analysis. The first aim of this article is to review existing methodologies for studying intersubjectivity. Four methodological approaches are reviewed: comparative self-report, observing behaviour, analysing talk and ethnographic engagement. The second aim of the article is to introduce and contribute to the development of a dialogical method of analysis. The dialogical approach enables the study of intersubjectivity at different levels, as both implicit and explicit, and both within and between individuals and groups. The article concludes with suggestions for using the proposed method for researching intersubjectivity both within individuals and between individuals and groups.
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...between different (real and imagined) perspectives (Marková, 2003b; Linell, 2009)....
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...Phenomena such as addressivity, double voiced discourse, and dialogue are deeply intersubjective (Linell, 2009)....
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...There are several key assumptions in dialogism (Linell, 2009)....
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...First, in contrast with narrow variants of conversation analysis, dialogism goes beyond immediate utterances to consider situation-transcending phenomena (Linell, 2009)....
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...While the goings-on within a dialogue are indeed important, understanding dialogue entails understanding the social, historical and cultural context (Marková, 2003b) as well as personal, subjective and intra-psychological processes (Linell, 2009)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to look at intercultural discourses through a "liquid" approach to examine the utterances of research participants, especially if they are "Others".
Abstract: Research on intercultural communication and education is often unsatisfactory in the ways it examines the utterances of research participants, especially if they are ‘Others’. This often seems to be the case in research on acculturation of ‘the Chinese student’ abroad. In this exploratory article, I propose to look at intercultural discourses through a ‘liquid’ approach. The article first describes the components of such a constructivist and open-ended approach to the ‘Other’: a constant effort to review and interact with interdisciplinary concepts; the use of research methods that are dynamic such as linguistic dialogism and theories of enunciation; and a fundamental renewal of the role and positioning of researchers in their studies. In order to illustrate the approach and verify if some of its aspects are taken into account by researchers, four studies from the fields of intercultural education and communication on ‘the Chinese student’ abroad are examined. The results show that the researcher...
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...This is where Dialogical methods (Dervin 2009, Linell 2009) and Theories of enunciation (Marnette 2006) can help researchers renew their analysis of interculturality....
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TL;DR: In this article, Chil and his resources are used to build complex meaning and action with a three word vocabulary: inhabiting and reshaping the actions of others through accumulative transformation.
Abstract: 1. Introduction Part I. Co-operative Accumulative Action: 2. Co-operative accumulation as a pervasive feature of the organization of action 3. The co-operative organization of emerging action 4. Chil and his resources 5. Building complex meaning and action with a three word vocabulary: inhabiting and reshaping the actions of others through accumulative transformation 6. The distributed speaker Part II. Intertwined Semiosis: 7. Intertwined knowing 8. Building action by combining different kinds of materials 9. Intertwined actors 10. Projection and the interactive organization of unfolding experience 11. Projecting upcoming events to accomplish co-operative action Part III. Embodied Interaction: 12. Action and co-operative embodiment in girls' hopscotch 13. Practices of color classification 14. Creating professional vision co-operatively 15. Environmentally coupled gestures Part IV. Co-operative Action with Predecessors: Sedimented Landscapes for Knowledge and Action: 16. Co-operative action with predecessors 17. The accumulation of diversity through co-operative action 18. Seeing in depth 19. Co-operative action as the source of, and solution to, the task faced by every community of creating new, culturally competent members with specific forms of knowledge and skill Part V. Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants: 20. The emergence of conventionalized signs within the natural world 21. Calibrating experience and knowledge by touching the world 22. The blackness of black: color categories as situated practice 23. Environmentally coupled gestures and the social calibration of professional vision 24. Professional vision 25. Conclusion.
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Abstract: In accordance with Windelband’s original proposal, the notions of nomothetic and idiographic are complementary terms, rather than an oppositional dyad. Given their dynamic and field-dependent nature, psychological phenomena are inherently unique—the relationship between their way of being and their constant becoming is mediated by the contingent conditions of the field. Therefore, science cannot be anything but idiographic—always facing a new unique event—while it is aimed at producing general knowledge of the nomothetic kind out of the ever-changing processes that unfold through irreversible time. The uniqueness of psychological phenomena makes it unfeasible for science to rely exclusively on inductive generalization that works through accumulation of empirical evidence provided by aggregated collections of specimens either within a single case (accumulation over time) or by assuming equivalence of exemplars across single cases subsumed under the same general class (a category viewed as a population). Ab...
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