Dialogism, intertextuality, and hypertextuality: the language-centered genealogy leading to connectivism¶

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Description¶

The article describes a chain of language-centered theories within architectonic thought: Bakhtin's dialogism, in which "languages do not exclude each other, but rather intersect with each other in many different ways"; Kristeva's intertextuality, where "each word (text) is an intersection of word (text) where at least one other word (text) can be read"; and Nelson's hypertextuality, non-sequential electronic writing with branches and links. On this foundation, the article argues, the contemporary idea of connectivism emerges in architectonic thought, with dialogue and texts modeling the conceptual system of relations.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Reading this genealogy requires connecting rather than siloing the perspectives of Kant, Peirce, Bakhtin, Kristeva, and Nelson

Constraints¶

• Kristeva's reading of Bakhtin is described by the article as controversial

Target Learners¶

• higher education educators and scholars of learning theory

Target Learning Objectives¶

• understanding how dialogic and textual theories underpin network learning

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Intertextuality and hypertextuality as twin modes of convergence operationalizing online education
• Architectonics: the philosophical tradition of building and relating meaning, knowledge, and experience
• Peircean architectonics as an interdisciplinary paradigm organized by triadic logic
• Dialogism: Bakhtin's dialogic reconceptualization of architectonics as a philosophy of interrelations mediated by language and texts
• Kantian architectonics: a theory of the systematic, constructivist organization of relations in cognition and higher education
• The Kantian Effect: a metaphor and paradigm linking intertextuality and interdisciplinarity through four dialogic principles
• Dialogism: the relation of one utterance to other utterances as the context informing all writing

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Key Sources¶

• Dennis, J. (2020). Languaging Network Learning: The Emergence of Connectivism in Architectonic Thought. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(3). https://www.irrodl.org/. doi:10.19173/irrodl.v21i3.4718