“Virtual Fictional/Factual Positioning”: Mediating dialogical concepts in psychological and literary studies

Barani, Forough; Yahya, Wan Roselezam Wan; Talif, Rosli

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“…Elsewhere, I have used interviewing and case study material to explore the kinds of positioning processes described here (see Raggatt, 2000, 2006, 2012a). Extending this approach, the micro-analysis of selected literary texts using positioning theory offers a promising avenue for further exploration (see also Barani, Wan Yahya, & Bin Talif, 2014; Raggatt, 2007). While the analysis of fiction has been a preoccupation of literary theorists since before the time of Bakhtin, it seems a little strange that this enterprise has not caught the imagination of more social scientists, particularly psychologists (Fireman, McVay, & Flanagan, 2003).…”

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Positioning: Dialogical voice in mind and culture

Raggatt

2015

Theory & Psychology

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The article combines discourse analysis and dialogical self theory to propose an integrated model of positioning processes in social interaction. The model incorporates social positioning—a focus for discursive psychology—with reflexive positioning—a focus for dialogical self theory. To illustrate the model, a fictionalized scenario is presented involving two people who meet for a date at a restaurant. The discursive dynamics of the scenario are then parsed using the model. The sequelae to the encounter take in the social rules for conducting dates at restaurants, but also the life trajectories of those concerned, their social worlds, and their internal micro-dialogues. Bakhtin’s concept of “loophole” is invoked to conceptualize reflexivity in the self, in the context of interactional dialogues. In discussion, the prospects for using fictional accounts as tools for developing psychological theory are considered. Without innovation in methods, advances in our understanding of positioning processes may be compromised.

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Positioning: Dialogical voice in mind and culture

Raggatt

2015

Theory & Psychology

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“…Literary fiction affords its writers and readers a different kind of dialogue with their own selves than autobiography does (Jones, 2010, 2014). Psychologists seldom join Bakhtin’s interest in the psychology of literature (but see Bandlamundi, 2016; Barani et al, 2014; Puchalska-Wasyl, 2011). His understanding of the epistemic process depicts a kind of scholarship that differs from pragmatics of qualitative research.…”

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Towards dialogic epistemology: the problem of the text

Jones

2016

Qualitative Research

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This article considers epistemological implications of Bakhtin's dialogism. Bakhtin urged scholars in the human sciences to treat a text as having a voice of its own, to be attuned to its creativity and originality, and to resist conflating one's image of the author with the actual person who has produced the text. Importing his ideas into the social sciences creates a site of tensions at the disciplines' boundaries. Yet his characterisation of dialogue applies also to qualitative researchers' interactions with nonfiction material. Bakhtin contended that a text as an utterance is a unique unrepeatable event; and that a voice is immanent in how the text itself operates: its placement in a dialogical sequence (answerability), its plan (purpose) and the realisation of the plan. Attention to these dynamics could constitute a formative step in the epistemic process of qualitative research, as concrete examples illustrate. A concept of a 'dialogic triangle' (utterance, response and their interrelation) is proposed. The dialogic nature of consciousness, the dialogic nature of human life itself. The single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human existence is the open-ended dialogue. … To live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree, and so forth. In this dialogue a person participates wholly and throughout his whole life: with his eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit, with his whole body and deeds. (Bakhtin 1984: 293) Bakhtin wrote the above in 1961 when reworking his 1929 monograph on Dostoevsky. The foundation of dialogism in literary criticism is often treated as secondary to psychology when 'Bakhtin' migrates to the social sciences. Although he theorised about human consciousness through literature-not only in the tradition of the Russian intelligentsia but also in parallel with Western thinkers such as Paul Ricoeur-Bakhtin was interested in literary prose per se as an expression of human existence. Bakhtin (1986) described scholarship in the humanities as a special kind of dialogue. It comprises complex interrelations between the given text and a context created by the scholar in the course of questioning, refuting, etc. Having established that an utterance is a unique event every time something is read or heard afresh, he raises the question of 'whether science can deal with such absolutely unrepeatable individualities as utterances'-and assures us, the 'answer is, of course, it can', for the scientific object of study should be 'the specific form and function of this

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“…The dialogical movements were multidirectional, in which he claimed and reclaimed his Arab identity, a process that somewhat resembled a battlefield. In showing his contempt toward the school’s institutional ethos of speaking English, Said did not only speak Arabic to show his defiance but he also invoked a “we-ness” through identifying himself with an Arabic-speaking practice, a cultural armory that he and his fellow Arabic-speaking students would collectively engage in, that is, forming a “dialogical coalition” (Barani, Yahya, & Talif, 2014, p. 763) to overthrow the powered position of his school. In mollifying this power, Said’s I-as-Arab position resurfaced as he, along with an imagined “we,” counter-subjugated the school authorities.…”

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Sociocultural trail within the dialogical self: I-positions, institutions, and cultural armory

Gube

2016

Culture & Psychology

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This paper discusses the interface of dialogical self-theory and institutional context with reference to the schooling of ethnic minorities. It proposes a more nuanced approach to identifying cultural resources within institutions that contribute to dialogical movements and positioning, thereby advancing the application of dialogical self-theory within institutionalized spaces. Drawing on sociocultural concepts of identity construction, the discussion outlines how I-positions are tethered to social practices, relationships, power, and relations within institutions. These cultural resources are highlighted because they foreground how dialogical tensions occur and transcend opposing voices within an institution itself. In providing a textual analysis of Edward Said's encounter with a school rule that tended to suppress his Arab identity, the integrated dialogical self-theory and sociocultural approach can highlight the contours of dialogical frictions as a result of negotiation with power across an institution to arrive at a desired I-position.

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“Virtual Fictional/Factual Positioning”: Mediating dialogical concepts in psychological and literary studies

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Positioning: Dialogical voice in mind and culture

Positioning: Dialogical voice in mind and culture

Towards dialogic epistemology: the problem of the text

Sociocultural trail within the dialogical self: I-positions, institutions, and cultural armory

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