Empathy, broadly defined as the ability to experience another's emotions and perceptions, is one of the major attitudes and actions underpinning an individual's participation in dialogue across diversity. The goal of this methodological paper is to operationalize empathy as a discursive construct, manifested in children and adolescent dialogic interactions. A coding scheme is developed based on three distinct steps. First, a review of the operational definitions of empathy is carried out, to capture how its related values, skills, and dispositions have been detected thus far. Second, the definitional elements resulting from this overview are represented in the dialogical notion of other-orientedness, which can be manifested, actually and potentially, in discourse. Moves are distinguished in 8 categories based on their disposition to be potentially other-oriented (dialogicity), which becomes actually manifested depending on their relevance to the discourse they are used in. Dialogicity and relevance are captured by the coding scheme proposed in this paper, which is validated and used to illustrate how it can reveal dialogical empathy and the development of common ground in interactions.

移情，广义上定义为体验他人情绪和感知的能力，是支持个人参与跨多样性对话的主要态度和行动之一。这篇方法论论文的目标是将移情作为一种话语结构进行操作，体现在儿童和青少年的对话互动中。编码方案是基于三个不同的步骤开发的。首先，对移情的操作定义进行了审查，以了解迄今为止如何检测到移情的相关价值、技能和倾向。其次，从这个概述中得出的定义要素在他者取向的对话概念中得到体现，这可以在话语中实际地和潜在地表现出来。对话性），这实际上取决于它们与所使用的话语的相关性。对话性和相关性由本文提出的编码方案捕获，该编码方案经过验证并用于说明它如何揭示对话移情和发展互动中的共同点。