EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTIONS FOR A PSYCHOLOGY OF DIALOGUE
EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTIONS FOR A PSYCHOLOGY OF DIALOGUE

Summary/Abstract: Notwithstanding the magisterial work of the psychologists H. H. Clark and A. Trognon , in comparison with sociology and linguistics a veritable psychology of dialogue still remains little elaborated. This paper analyses epistemological obstacles facing such an enterprise, arguing that dialogue can not be understood as a ‘window’ on the individual mind. A vision of dialogue as a process of collective thinking, with the exchange as the fundamental unit of analysis, is sketched out. Dialogue is a complex system, involving multidirectional relations between situational representations, communicative action and emergent thinking.

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