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_id: '32168'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Based on a cultural-historical and dialogical conceptualization of thinking
    and speech as formulated in Soviet psychology and linguistics of the 1920s and
    1930s, this article seeks to reflect upon a congruent way of investigating writing
    as a cognitive and communicative activity. What has to be taken into account when
    developing a methodology for writing research from a cultural-historical and dialogical
    perspective? Firstly, writing is not separated from other forms of speech activity
    like interpersonal and intrapersonal speech. Thus, inner dialogue and the addressed
    character of writing become crucial notions to be methodologically considered.
    Secondly, contrary to current writing research traditions such as literacy studies
    and studies of the writing process in cognitive psychology, both individual writing
    processes and socio-cultural writing practices as well as their relationship must
    be considered. These reflections lead towards the conclusion that writing is not
    fully accessible to external observation or to introspection. In consequence,
    a suggestion of a methodological approach is given, inspired by the activity theoretically
    informed method of auto-confrontation. The proposed method consists of two phases:
    a) videotaping of a writing episode and b) co-analysis of the videotaped writing
    episode in dialogue between writer and researcher. The second phase transfers
    the writing activity into a new context where understanding it becomes possible.
    The co-analysis makes involved positions audible: positions of the writer and
    of the researcher, of real and imagined readers as well as intersubjective and
    community-related positions. Finally, implications of the proposed research setting
    are discussed and evaluated with regard to the theoretical grounding. An instance
    of the methodology to be sketched in this article was developed in the context
    of the author’s dissertation project in preparation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
    in Munich, Germany with the working title «Writing processes and writing practices.
    A conceptualization from a dialogical perspective». The project is funded by scholarships
    of Universität Bayern e.V. and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.'
author:
- first_name: Andrea
  full_name: Karsten, Andrea
  id: '53917'
  last_name: Karsten
citation:
  ama: Karsten A. Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical Writing Research – Some
    Methodological Considerations. <i>Cultural-Historical Psychology</i>. 2010;4:91-98.
  apa: Karsten, A. (2010). Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical Writing Research
    – Some Methodological Considerations. <i>Cultural-Historical Psychology</i>, <i>4</i>,
    91–98.
  bibtex: '@article{Karsten_2010, title={Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical
    Writing Research – Some Methodological Considerations}, volume={4}, journal={Cultural-Historical
    Psychology}, author={Karsten, Andrea}, year={2010}, pages={91–98} }'
  chicago: 'Karsten, Andrea. “Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical Writing Research
    – Some Methodological Considerations.” <i>Cultural-Historical Psychology</i> 4
    (2010): 91–98.'
  ieee: A. Karsten, “Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical Writing Research –
    Some Methodological Considerations,” <i>Cultural-Historical Psychology</i>, vol.
    4, pp. 91–98, 2010.
  mla: Karsten, Andrea. “Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical Writing Research
    – Some Methodological Considerations.” <i>Cultural-Historical Psychology</i>,
    vol. 4, 2010, pp. 91–98.
  short: A. Karsten, Cultural-Historical Psychology 4 (2010) 91–98.
date_created: 2022-06-26T08:39:34Z
date_updated: 2022-07-18T09:26:58Z
department:
- _id: '424'
intvolume: '         4'
keyword:
- writing
- writing research
- dialogue
- dialogical perspective
- auto-confrontation
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://psyjournals.ru/files/32918/kip_2010_4_Karsten.pdf
oa: '1'
page: 91 - 98
publication: Cultural-Historical Psychology
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Towards Cultural-Historical and Dialogical Writing Research – Some Methodological
  Considerations
type: journal_article
user_id: '42165'
volume: 4
year: '2010'
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