Dialogism provides the grounds for building a comprehensive model of discourse and it is focused on the multiplicity of perspectives (i.e., voices). Dialogism can be present in any type of text, while voices become themes or recurrent topics emerging from the discourse. In this study, we examine the extent that differences between self-explanations and thinkalouds can be detected using computat...

The notions of ‘modeling’ and ‘interrelation’ play a pivotal role in Sebeok’s biosemiotics. In dialogue with Thomas A. Sebeok’s doctrine of signs, we propose to inquire into the action of modeling and interrelation in biosemiosis over the planet Earth, developing the concept of interrelation in terms of ‘dialogism’. Indeed, in the light of Sebeok’s biosemiotics we believe that the concept of di...

Bakhtin’s work has been appropriated not only for linguistics but also for different areas of knowledge such as Psychology, Education and Arts. Approximating this author’s work to the field of human development, it can be understood how dialogism and the Arts. In approaching this author’s field of language and human development, we can understand how the dialogism and polyphony can be evoked in...

We consider tensions between collaboration, ownership, and appropriation in relation to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism. We analyze examples of these tensions from our own research in an after-school, design research program and relate them to findings from other research that explored using collaborative learning systems in classrooms. We apply dialogism to describe factors that contribu...

  Bakhtin's dialogism respects differences and appreciates dialogue. Different fields of the humanities are increasingly apprehending dialogism; however, few studies have applied it in the realm of critical discourse analysis. The present study presupposes that a fundamental similarity exists between dialogism and critical discourse analysis in their respect for different human voices to be hea...

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a Natural Language Processing-based operationalization of Bakhtin’s dialogism ideas, and to insert it in the context of distance learning. Three core concepts from Bakhin are introduced and their application in the domain of distance learning discussed. Then, two computer-based systems based on these ideas, PolyCAFe and Pensum are presented.

In this article it will be argued that the Menippean satire (broadly understood in Bakhtinian terms) provides a most, if not the most, significant formal and perhaps historical context for reading the Babylonian Talmud (ca. sixth century after Christ). Some theoretical considerations on the role of agency in dialogism (intertextuality) are lifted up as well.

The article explores Open Access in the context of recent contributions in communication and public relations theory, notably Bakhtinian dialogism. Increasingly since the 1960s communication and public relations theory have shifted their focus away from one-way, asymmetrical to two-way, symmetrical models, thereby progressing to more equitable and interactive, multi-level conceptual models of d...