Dialogical triads and three component processes

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Dialogical triadsandthree- component processes

• 
  Markova I., 2003, Dialogicality
  and social representations, Cambridge, Cambridge
  University Press.
• Aikaterini Metaxa, Athina Vrakatseli

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Structure

• Main Argument
• Process of knowing
• Dialogical Triad
• - Buhler s triadic organon model
• -Tension
• -Internal Relations
• -Object
• -Strength of relations
• Conclusion

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Main Argument

• Ivana Markova
• Brings together concept of dialogue and theory of
  social representations
•   Develops a new theory of social knowledge

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Process of knowing

• Traditional epistemologies
• (Platonic/ Cartesian approach, Durkheim etc)
• -Knower (individual or collective)
• -Object of knowledge
• Mental representations
• Collective representations

• Dialogically based theory of knowledge
• -Knower Ego- Alter
• -Object of knowledge
• Symbols are constructed socially

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Dialogical triad
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Buhler s triadic organon model

• 3 functions of language
• -expressive
• -appealing
• -representational
• Representation capacity of mind to imagine,
  fantasise and create something new using symbols,
  not to mirror the world
• Ego-Alter- Object can function only as a whole
• Critique stability
• But, knowledge a dynamic relation
• Change

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Tension

• Moscovicis semiotic triangle Presence of
  TENSION
• Tension expresses impetus to an action or to a
  change
• -No communication unless participants are drawn
  together by tension
• -No social action unless oppositions in tension
  are negotiated, evaluated judged
• Participants communicative choices produce
  different kinds of tension?
• Implications for the process of knowing

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Internal relations

• Relations simultaneously sequentially dynamic
• Dialogue is constituted of different kinds of the
  Ego- Alter (I- group, group- culture, I- you)
  that create different kinds of tensions?
  discontinuities, abrupt changes, semantic
  reversals, hidden polemics
• In dialogue we must presuppose
• -polyphasia heteroglossia
• -co-existence of different styles of thinking
• -co-presence of different voices in communication
• Change non-linear multifaceted

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Object

• Representations of objects are cultural
  representations penetrate all spheres of life
• Modern world technology?
• Boundaries of objects dialogically formed and
  transformed
• Fluid and transient objects?
• Scientific and public disputes
• Tension in communication between Ego-Alter

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Strength of relations

• Social representations
• -belief- based/ Ego- Alter in the foreground
• -knowledge- based/ Ego- Object in the foreground
• In reality, knowledge beliefs are involved
• Depends on the style of thinking and reasoning

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Conclusion

• Dialogicality is the capacity of the human mind
  to conceive, create and communicate about social
  realities in terms of the other.
• Social representations are distinguished from
  mental and collective representations. Social
  representations are embedded in history and
  culture and stored in language. They manifest
  themselves in public discourses and social
  thinking about phenomena, which touch in some
  fundamental ways upon social realities, e.g.
  political, ecological or health related.
• The theory of social representations places
  communication and the concept of change in the
  centre of social psychology.