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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971801003321

Titolo

Dialogue in intercultural communities : from an educational point of view / / edited by Claudio Baraldi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pa. ; ; Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009

ISBN

9786612395468

9781282395466

1282395467

9789027288912

9027288917

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Dialogue studies, , 1875-1792 ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

BaraldiClaudio

Disciplina

303.48/2

Soggetti

Intercultural communication

Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Empowering dialogue in intercultural settings / Claudio Baraldi -- The research project / Claudio Baraldi, Gabriella Cortesi and Vittorio Iervese -- The CISV narrative / Gabriella Cortesi -- Organisational meetings 1: promoting participation / Claudio Baraldi and Cristina Caiti -- Organisational meetings 2: conflict management / Claudio Baraldi and Elena Gambari -- Activities 1: promoting participation / Monica Bonilauri and Elisa Rossi -- Activities 2: coordinating reflection / Federico Farini -- Activities 3: conflict management / Vittorio Iervese and Elisa Rossi -- Activities 4: adolescents' coordination / Claudio Baraldi and Alessandra Braglia -- Activities 5: interpreting as mediation? / Claudio Baraldi and Rosanna Blasi -- Conclusions / Claudio Baraldi.

Sommario/riassunto

Conclusions highlight the ways in which the use of language in interactions provides important cues for analyzing the cultural presuppositions of CISV activities, through both empowering dialogues and disempowering monologues. The analysis of interactions and participants' narratives shows both (1) dyadic hierarchical interactions associated with conflict avoidance, normative conflict resolution and



instrumental translation, and (2) dialogic empowering relationships based on specific dialogic actions supporting and confirming active participation, such as promotional questions, continuers, echoes, systematic appreciations, transformative formulations, and suggestive narratives. In the activities analysed, promotion of agency and personal expressions, through coordination and dialogic mediation, seems to be more important than insistence on intercultural relationships, and improvements in this promotion seems to be crucial for education to peace in intercultural settings.