“God’s Absence During Trauma Took Its Toll”
Dialogic Tracing of Literate Activity and Lifespan Trajectories of Semiotic (Un)becoming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21560633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan M Ware (0000-0003-3093-7286, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Ryan Ware (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-165 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Written Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0741-0883 • E-ISSN: 1552-8472 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07410883211051969 |
| OpenAlex | W3209805441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
Scholarship on trajectories of becoming with literate activities is of growing interest in Writing Studies, particularly in accounts of writing grounded in cultural-historical and dialogic approaches, and in lifespan accounts of writing. The research reported here contributes to those conversations by tracing trajectories of becoming that are dynamically nonlinear, necessarily messy, and predicated on exceptionally complex streams of times, places, life experiences, artifacts, and literate activities. I draw from one case study with Alex, once a deeply faithful Christian who, over complex trajectories of semiotic becoming, lost her faith and was left to make sense of drastic perspectival shifts, in large part, through literate activity. Weaving analyses of talk across 2 years, 15 interviews, and multiple texts and textual interactions, I trace a narrative of Alex’s trajectories of unbecoming/becoming. I argue that Writing Studies needs flexible, theoretically grounded methods to trace becoming across lifespan trajectories and I address this imperative by showcasing one approach— dialogic animation protocols coupled with dialogic analyses
Aesthetics · Art · Dialogic · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Narrative · Orality · Pedagogy · Scholarship · Semiotics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Literacy, Media, and Education · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology
Rearticulating theory and methodology for perezhivanie and becoming
Getting to “the Upper End of the Novice Zone”
Tracing Discursive Turbulence as Intra-active Pedagogical Change and Becoming
Voices in Dialogue
A Taxonomy of Life Writing
Considering multimodal conversation analysis from a flat, intra-active perspective on situated, historical, embodied semiosis
The Dialogic Imagination
What Writing Does and How It Does It
Culture in Minds and Societies
Developing a Transliteracies Framework for a Connected World
Natural histories of discourse
Visual Embodied Actions in Interview-Based Writing Research
A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development
Reassembling the Social
Making people happen”
Across the Scales of Time
Language and Social Relations
Situated Learning
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |