Dialogism

Dialogism

1. language/discourse

   • all the words in a dictionary
   • language used in a purposeful way (ex. metaphors)
     • metaphors: we tend to think about it as language but it's an action
       • structures our reality
         • influences the way we learn
   • heteroglossia=ideology=bias
     • trace (values, history, gender, class)
     • self vs. other
       • alterity
         • shallow understanding
           • quick judgement
             • how are they like us? not like us?
               • no opportunity to change
         • responsive understanding
           • rhetorical deliberation
             • both parties must come open and willing to be changed
               • want to bring/give meaning to our lives (more human than before)
       • Ethics!

2. Dialogism

   • centrifugal (out)
     • language is free
       • can be used however you want, cannot relate
   • ontological rhetoric

3. Monologism

   • centripetal (in)
     • control language/meaning
       • institutions: parents, church, government
   • methodological rhetoric

4. context/situations

   • Fluctuation Ratio
     • Power
       • Subjectivities
         • Agency
           • degree of agency changes
             • agency requires strategy
               • always have a certain degree of agency/ we decide how we respond
                 • material conditions also influence agency: materiality influences who we are
           • agency is a ratio=ability to act
       • each subject position has different ideologies => cognitive dissonance

5. Epistemology

   • our way of knowing
     • reality
       • Rhetoric as Ontological
         • Becoming (how do we negotiate the world?)
     • how we make meaning

6. Bakhtin

   • you don't become you without others
     • language is contextual
       • provides subjective view of reality
         • language is an event, deed, action
           • language is situational
             • language is political and social
               • language is the mediation of forces to make meaning
     • we negotiate along the continuum