Liminality in language use: some thoughts on interactional analysis from a dialogical perspective.
This essay traces my engagement with Michèle Grossen's ideas of a dialogical perspective on interaction analysis (Grossen Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 1-22, 2009) and highlights a process account of self in interaction. Firstly I draw on Turner's concept of liminality with respect to the transformative, temporal significance in interaction. Secondly I explored further the conversation analytic concepts such as formulation and reformulation as a viable analytical tool for a dialogical perspective. Lastly, I addressed the issue of interaction in institutional settings, in particular with interactional asymmetries of interaction, whilst relativising the I-position dialogical perspective. I explore insights from social anthropology as well as revisiting conversation analysis and discursive psychology, concluding that a promising direction would be sought through a cross-fertilisation between dialogism and other sibling perspectives concerning language use, communication, social action and discourse- and narrative-based analyses.
Murakami
Kyoko
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Department of Education, University of Bath, Bath, England, UK. k.murakami@bath.ac.uk
D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007802:Language; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011593:Psychology, Social; D014705:Verbal Behavior