“…As his ideas have moved into social science, and informed empirical research, there has been increasing demand to clarify the way in which his ideas inform research for both transparency and training purposes. There have been several attempts to formalize a method, such as coding frames for analyzing dominance (Linell, Gustavsson & Juvonen 1988), direct and indirect quotations (Gillespie & Cornish, 2010a) and mapping out positions, especially within the dialogical self tradition (Hermans, 2001b;Raggatt, 2002;Cunha, Salgado & Goncalves, 2011). Are such attempts at formalization consistent with the basic assumptions of dialogism?…”