This special issue has explored a range of means of ‘generalising’ or ‘re-situating knowledge’ through the intensive, dialogical, examination of single cases. The papers elaborate aspects of the methodology of dialogical case studies without asking the traditional question: ‘of what is this a case?’ In this concluding article, we look across the papers to draw out methodological considerations for dialogical single case studies, comparing how the papers deal with four key dialogically informed methodological concerns: the primacy of self-other interdependencies; dynamics; ethics; and modes of writing. We then turn to the question of generalising, or re-situating, knowledge. Across the papers, three different, but overlapping, approaches to re-situating knowledge are taken, implying alternative possible questions: (i) How does the case participate in epistemic or narrative genres? (ii) How does the case contribute to a genealogy? (iii) In what ways is the case generative? We offer these concepts and questions as methodological prompts for case study researchers to conceptualise their knowledge-making as a dialogical endeavour.

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走向单一案例研究的对话方法

本期特刊通过对单个案例的深入、对话和审查，探索了一系列“概括”或“重新定位知识”的方法。这些论文详细阐述了对话案例研究方法的各个方面，而没有提出传统问题：“这是什么案例？” 在这篇结论性文章中，我们浏览了论文，为对话式单一案例研究提出了方法论上的考虑，比较了论文如何处理四个关键的对话式方法论关注点：自我-其他相互依存关系的首要地位；动力学; 伦理; 和写作方式。然后我们转向概括或重新定位知识的问题。在这些论文中，采用了三种不同但重叠的方法来重新定位知识，暗示可能存在的其他问题：(i) 案例如何参与认知或叙事体裁？(ii) 这个案例对家谱有什么贡献？(iii) 案例生成的方式有哪些？我们提供这些概念和问题，作为案例研究研究人员的方法论提示，将他们的知识创造概念化为对话努力。