Dear Jay and everybody-
I'm recovering from a web designing "marathon" for the last 2 weeks - with a
group of my colleagues as UD we developed a new class webs that promote
collaboration among the instructors. I have learned so much about
JavaScript, CAML, SharePoint, and SQL server (maybe more than I wanted :-(
But the new webs are running now just a week before class orientations....
Anyway, Jay, I'd like to hear more about the Denmark summer institute and
new directions for critical discourse analysis. Can you elaborate and give
examples, please?
Using an opportunity, I want to support Jay's more and encourage xmca-ers to
vote for Debra Hicks as our business meeting speaker in San Diego :-)
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Lemke [mailto:jaylemke@umich.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:25 PM
> To: XMCA LISTGROUP
> Subject: into the lull
>
>
> The current lull in activity on xmca has given me a chance to catch-up
once
> again, after two weeks at in interesting summer institute in Denmark on
new
> directions for critical discourse analysis research. (I was arguing in my
> main presentation that we need a more activity-centered unit of analysis,
> the trajectories along which we make meanings and feelings in real time
and
> filled space.)
>
> I was especially interested, from the discussion time here that I missed,
> in Eugene's notes on Bakhtin and research method. This is also a theme
that
> Deborah Hicks has been exploring in some very interesting theoretical work
> on Bakhtin's theory of "answerability" from his earlier writing. We
> sometimes forget that B. was not just a sociocultural theorist of
> polyphonic discourse, he was also profoundly concerned with issues of
> personal moral conduct in interaction and dialogue. For him, dialogue
> always has a moral dimension, our answerability for how we answer. I think
> this is in some ways the root of his stance toward subjectivization and
> does fit well, as Eugene proposes, with current research concerns, eg in
> ethnography and also in education and sociology, about becoming partners
> with our "research subjects" so that we do not, even inadvertently, turn
> them into "objects" of our gaze and our discourse, which is dehumanizing
> for them and for us, but also so that we do not create a misleading
> discourse about them which says more about ourselves than about them,
> though pretending the reverse. It is almost a lawful paradox in the human
> sciences, I think, that the more we pretend to "objective" accounts of
> others, the more we descend into our own unrecognized and uncritical
> subjectivity.
>
> I wonder if Deborah Hicks might be interested in leading a discussion on
> these broad issues for the CHAT SIG at AERA?
>
> Thanks, as often, to Eugene!
>
> JAY.
>
>
>
> Jay Lemke
> Professor
> University of Michigan
> School of Education
> 610 East University
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104
>
> Tel. 734-763-9276
> Email. JayLemke@UMich.edu
> Website. www.umich.edu/~jaylemke
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