The dialogism of ‘telling’: Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in early school writing

• Uses a Bakhtinian analysis of dialogism in early school writing. Shows how student make use dialogic experiences when Suggests the term ‘associative intertextuality’ for presence interplay centrifugal and centripetal forces. Theoretical empiric argumentation didactic attention to heteroglossia. Recently, Sweden has seen rise research concerning content functional aspects writing tradition form-orientated research. While this provides important insights, few studies still focus on students draw This study aims shed light between their written texts primary instruction. Using intertextual interdiscursive analysis, examines 38 divided into two corpora different prompts. The prompts generated very that showed complex through inner speech students. dialogues respective conventions experiential worlds. further shows heteroglossic forces can work alongside monoglossic social practices