Abstract

The dialogic nature of human beings has widely been argued in the scientific literature. Language, as a cultural and psychological tool, has the potential to construct social meanings, including those related to love, attraction and desire. In these emotional dimensions of the self, people use ‘the language of desire’, defined as the capacity of language to raise attraction and be desired, while the ‘language of ethics’ is used to describe what is ‘good’ and ‘ethical’. This article examines a dialogic intervention with 11–13-year-old children named Dialogic Literary Gatherings and explores its affordances to articulate both forms of language toward nonviolent models. 28 sessions from two elementary schools were analyzed, along with three focus groups with students. Main findings outline that dialogic features enable the emergence of the language of desire in combination to the language of ethics toward nonviolent relationships.

摘要

在科学文献中，已经广泛争论了人类的对话性质。语言作为一种文化和心理工具，具有构建社会意义的潜力，包括与爱情，吸引力和欲望相关的意义。在自我的这些情感维度中，人们使用“欲望的语言”，即语言提高吸引力和被欲望的能力，而“伦理的语言”则用来描述“善”和“道德” 。本文研究了一种名为“ Dialogic文学聚会”的11-13岁儿童的对话干预，并探讨了其为非暴力模式表达两种形式的语言的能力。分析了来自两所小学的28个课程，以及与学生进行的三个焦点小组讨论。