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The Nature of Dialogue

This October 2017 conference in Torino focuses on the theoretical framework of dialogical theories, exploring how humans make sense of themselves, others, and the world through dialogue and interactivity. Key topics include self-other interdependences, interactivity and intersubjectivity, dialogue in various contexts, and the moral aspect of dialogue.

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The Nature of Dialogue

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  1. The Nature ofDialogue ”GettingCloser”, Torino, October 13, 2017 Per Linell DepartmentofEducation, Communication and Learning, University of Göteborg, SE per.linell@gu.se

  2. DialogicalTheories Dialogicaltheoriesconstitute a theoreticalframework for describing, explaining and understandinghow human beings make sense ofthemselves, others, and the world. A phenomenologicalperspective: Sense-makings and apprehensionsof the worldare in focus.

  3. Ten points: 1-5 • Self-otherinterdependences: Againstradical individualism • Self-otherinterdependencesyieldingresponses and contexts in dialogicalexchanges • Interactivityand intersubjectivity • Also “internal” dialogues • Dialoguein both situations and traditions

  4. Ten points: 6-10 6. Thirdparties in dialogue 7. Monologuesin a dialogicallyconstitutedworld 8. Dialogism is verymuchaboutmeaning, not onlyaboutsystematicity and sequentiality in interaction 9. In the sense-makingsofcommunication and cognition: sufficientunderstandings ”for current practical purposes” (Garfinkel) in partiallysharedworlds (Rommetveit) 10. Moral aspectsofdialogue

  5. Dialogue, dialogicality, interactivity:The major approaches with keywords (Linell, 2017b)

  6. Dialogue, dialogicality, interactivityThe major approaches continued

  7. Dialogue, dialogicality, interactivity The major approaches continued

  8. Some general distinctionsbetweenapproaches • ”externaldialogue” vs. sense-making and dialogicalityof the mind • scientific vs. radicaldialogism • descriptive vs. normative dialogism • social-discursivedialogue vs. solitary sense-makingactivities • dialogue in humanism vs. interactivity in posthumanism

  9. Somereferences • Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays. Transl. by Carol Emerson and Michael Holquist, edited by Michael Holquist. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. • Dreyfus, Hubert 1991. Being-in-the-world: A commentary on Heidegger´s “Being and Time”. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. • Duranti, Alessandro; Goodwin, Charles. (eds.) 1992. Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Garfinkel, Harold 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. New York: Prentice-Hall. • Goodwin, Charles 2000. Action and embodiment within situated human interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 32: 1489-1522. • Hermans, Hubert & Hermans-Konopka, Agnieszka. 2010. Dialogical Self Theory: positioning and counter-positioning in a globalizing society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Hustvedt, Siri 2010. The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. New York (?) • Linell, Per 2009. Rethinking Language, Mind and World Dialogically: Interactional and contextual theories of human sense-making. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. • Linell, Per 2017a. Dialogue and the Birth of the Individual Mind. Journal of Deafblind Studies on Communication 3: 59-79. • Linell, Per 2017b. Dialogue, dialogicality, and interaction: A conceptually bewildering field? Language & Dialogue 7: 301-336. • Marková, Ivana. 2016. The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Pickering, Martin & Garrod, Simon. 2004. Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27: 169-226. • Rommetveit, Ragnar 1974. On Message Structure. London: Wiley. • Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2007. Sequence Organization in Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Streeck, Jürgen; Goodwin, Charles; LeBaron, Curtis 2011b. Embodied interaction in the material world: An introduction. In: Streeck, J., Goodwin, C. & LeBaron, C. (eds.), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-26. • Weigand, Edda. 2010. Dialogue: The Mixed Game. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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