Article published in:
Dialogue and Ways of RelatingEdited by Huey-Rong Chen
[Language and Dialogue 10:1] 2020
► pp. 118–145
Constructing others and dialoguewith them in the course of publiceducational meetings
Alena L. Vasilyeva | University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
The study explores public educational meetings that aim to promote the Belarusian language and culture. In the
course of the meetings, those who do not have the same values and are not present during meetings are brought up into a
conversation. In other words, the voice of the others who are not part of the community gets involved in the dialogue.
Besides, some of the invited guests do not speak Belarusian and part of the audience is not necessarily interested in
learning Belarusian but rather attends these meetings to meet with those guests. In this respect, the study explores the
interactional resources the hosts and the attendees use to construct the dialogue with the other in their absence and in
their presence. It investigates who is considered to be the other and how the other is discursively constructed.
Keywords: dialogue, discourse analysis, identity, language attitudes, language ideology, other
Published online: 19 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00062.vas
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00062.vas
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