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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.S. (2004). From Dialogue to Dialogism: the Confessions of a Writing Researcher. In: Bostad, F., Brandist, C., Evensen, L.S., Faber, H.C. (eds) Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005679_8
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