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(2004) Bakhtinian perspectives on language and culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
What does dialogism have to offer to the study of writing as "practice"? In this chapter, I shall try to illustrate my navigation in relation to this complex issue from the empirical and epistemological point of view of the applied linguist. More specifically, I work as a writing researcher trying to understand what happens when children and teenagers appropriate a highly literate culture. How can an applied linguist come to view dialogism as a basic prerequisite for understanding and stimulating the development of cultural appropriation? And how does all of this relate to the underlying theme of this book — theory of culture — as applied to a different cultural practice like, for instance, jazz improvization?
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Evensen, L. (2004)., From dialogue to dialogism: the confessions of a writing researcher, in F. Bostad, C. Brandist, L. Evensen & H. C. Faber (eds.), Bakhtinian perspectives on language and culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 147-164.
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