Dialogism and the Distributed Language Approach: a rejoinder to Steffensen

Creating Knowledge With and From the Differences: The Required Dialogicality and Dialogical Competences

“…It is these integrations between clues and the meaning they contribute for that is referred to as acts of meaning creation or knowing. The creation of meaning is a sociomaterial and discursive practice, that entirely depends on the knower, it involves the knowers' wholeness (not only mind), including body senses, emotions, sensible knowledge, intuition, it is situated and emergent, and involves communicative interactions with persons and artefacts, sustained by traditions, sociocultural practices or traditions (Polanyi, 1958(Polanyi, , 1966(Polanyi, , 1968(Polanyi, , 1969Polanyi & Prosch, 1975;Gherardi, 2000Gherardi, , 2001Gherardi, , 2006Gherardi, , 2009Gherardi, , 2011Gherardi, , 2013Gherardi & Strati, 2012;Tsoukas, 1996Tsoukas, , 2005aTsoukas, , 2005bTsoukas, , 2005cTsoukas, , 2009Tsoukas, , 2011Linell, 2009Linell, , 2015Souto, 2010Souto, , 2013c.…”

“…The dialogicality in knowing practices is grounded on the dialogism epistemology (Marková, 2003;Marková et al, 2007;Linell, 2009Linell, , 2014Linell, , 2015. Dialogicality entails axiomatic assumptions for conceiving dialogues dialogically rather than monologically, such as the…”

“…For a thorough distinction between dialogism and normative dialogue theories see Linell (2009Linell ( , 2015.…”

“…Dialogicality, the ability of making sense together with others and in situationtranscending practices (traditions or sociocultural practices) (Linell, 2015, forthcoming), is a critical concern in knowledge creation theories and practices. This is because it is anchored in one of the primary and foundational conditions of human being and human relating, and therefore, of knowing, notably that our sense-making is interdependent with others' sense-makings; that is, the self-other interdependencies (Linell, 2009(Linell, , 2015Marková et al, 2007). Such axiomatic assumption requires even deeper attention when knowledge creation i (knowing or tacit knowing) involves relating amongst individuals who are considerable different in their practical knowledge.…”

“…This means that the current study draws from dialogism, which is an epistemological and ontological framework, rather than from normative 'dialogue theories' or 'normative dialogism' (for details see Linell, 2009see Linell, , 2015. Thus, knowing is understood dialogically, as anchored on a dialogism iv epistemology and ontology (Linell, 2009(Linell, , 2014(Linell, , 2015 forthcoming) or on the "extended dialogism" (Linell, 2015, p. 3, forthcoming, p. 9). "Dialogism is a meta-theoretical approach to human sense-making that is based on the assumption that humans possess dialogicality" (Linell, 2014, p. 32), it is "an epistemological framework that takes dialogicality systematically into consideration" (Linell, 2009, p. 7).…”