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Article published In: Language and Dialogue
Vol. 14:3 (2024) ► pp.452–472

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Different levels of co-construction in dialogue

Towards a better understanding of values and norms

 | Université de Sherbrooke
Published online: 13 June 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00175.let
Abstract
A completed research-action project on Climate change adaptation at the regional level (Memphremagog, Québec, Canada) is revisited here, which requires first to briefly recall what is the CCA program, and the project’s context, goals, and characteristics. The aim of the paper is to clarify issues of co-construction in dialogue, implementing a way to analytically distinguish phases of co-construction at the level of the research team’s effort along the project, by following important dialogue episodes. Stemming out of this dialogue analysis, another contribution of this work is to propose a better picture of the internal relationship between three important components of the normative dimension of such projects: pursued values, processual values, and the prescriptions that were required to actualize these values.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Some requirements of co-constructions
    • 2.1A great variety of expertise
    • 2.2Knowledge and epistemic aspects
    • 2.3Action requirement issues
    • 2.4Need of recognition for shared learning
    • 2.5Setting up the space, planning and organizing
  • 3.Phases of the project and a convention
    • Remarks on these interactions
  • 4.Processual and final values or aims with their links to prescriptions
  • 5.Conclusions
    • 5.1Plans and integration: How can we verify the value of the process?
    • 5.2On requirements, values and ends
  • Notes
  • References
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