Knowledge and interaction through diverse lenses

• Autor(a) principal: Markova, Ivana
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.25755/int.343
• topic: Número 7 - A construção de conhecimento enquanto empreendimento dialógico/interactivo II.

The concepts like knowledge and interaction have acquired many different meanings in human and social sciences and consequently, the knowledge construction in cognitive science, computing, socio-biology and dialogicality refers to diverse processes. This article draws attention to such diversities in meanings of knowledge and interaction and to their ontologies. It first discusses the Cartesian, connectivist and neuro-biological approaches to knowledge and processing of information. It then presents a dialogical theory of knowledge based on the Ego-Alter interaction. It argues that knowledge is co-constructed jointly by the Ego-Alter, leading to the epistemological triadic relation the Ego-Alter-Object. Dialogical theory brings communication into the centre of the theory of knowledge. The last part of the paper discusses the construction of knowledge in and through communication genres, giving as examples persuasion and argumentation.