According to [NS96,ER+00], the notion of electronic institution is founded on three basic concepts: dialogical framework, performative structure and rules of behavior. The dialogical framework provides a context or environment for agent interaction. In dialog-based institutions, agents interact among each other by means of illocutions, which convey the meaning of the agents’ intentions and desi...

Dialogical argumentation is an important cognitive activity by which agents exchange arguments and counterarguments as part of some process such as discussion, debate, persuasion and negotiation. Whilst numerous formal systems have been proposed, there is a lack of frameworks for implementing and evaluating these proposals. First-order executable logic has been proposed as a general framework f...

I present aspects of an analytical model of collaboration processes, focusing on types of dialogical thinking and their relations with the interactive circulation and regulation of affect. Types of dialogical thinking are extensional, accumulative, foundational thinking, together with interactive meaning-making. Their occurrences in argumentation dialogue are discussed in relation to affect.

This article problematizes the neoliberal reconfiguration of labour rights in Lithuania, a newer European Union member state, in which the impacts of the global economic and financial crisis were particularly severe and where radical austerity measures were subsequently imposed. Now, after six years, in an attempt to resolve the exhaustion of previous austerity-based solutions for economic reco...

Although internal dialogue and inner speech form essential part of communication, it has not been given much attention in studies of interaction and language. This article suggests that the basic unit of dialogical epistemology, the triad Ego-AlterObject/representation could be conceptually relevant to dialogical subjectivity. It proposes that internal dialogue involves different kinds of symbo...

Argumentation between agents through dialogue is an important cognitive activity. There have been a number of proposals for formalizing dialogical argumentation. However, each proposal involves a number of quite complex definitions, and there is significant diversity in the way different proposals define similar features. This complexity and diversity has hindered analysis and comparison of the...

If identities are socially produced, what happens when individuals grow up participating in divergent or conflicting social contexts? This paper reports upon research with second generation Turkish adolescents in London. Using the concept of the dialogical self, the research examines the dialogical structure of these young Turks’ selves. The analysis is Bakhtinian and seeks to identify the diff...

With the development of Bakhtin's theory of polyphony in literary criticism, the kind of attitude to literary texts has changed, and according to the needs of modern society, this discourse became the focus of attention of thinkers and literary theorists. Polyphony, with its own meta-lingual potentials, brings with it a new approach, a rethinking of the audience, so that the reader can have a n...