TY - JOUR

T1 - Liminality in Language Use

T2 - Some Thoughts on Interactional Analysis from a Dialogical Perspective

AU - Murakami, Kyoko

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - This essay traces my engagement with Michèle Grossen’s ideas of a dialogical perspective on interaction analysis (Grossen Integrative Psychological andBehavioral Science, 1–22, 2009) and highlights a process account of self ininteraction. 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.

AB - This essay traces my engagement with Michèle Grossen’s ideas of a dialogical perspective on interaction analysis (Grossen Integrative Psychological andBehavioral Science, 1–22, 2009) and highlights a process account of self ininteraction. 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.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Interaction analysis

KW - liminality

KW - dialogical perspective

M3 - Journal article

VL - 44

SP - 30

EP - 38

JO - Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

JF - Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

SN - 1932-4502

M1 - 10.1007/s12124-010-9115-x

ER -