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Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology

dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Tiago
dc.contributor.authorSalgado, João
dc.contributor.authorCunha, Carla
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-14T10:21:37Z
dc.date.available2021-04-14T10:21:37Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIt is intuitively felt that ambiguity plays a crucial role in human beings’ everyday life and in psychologists’ theoretical and applied work. However, ambiguity remains essentially non-problematised in psychological science since its foundation. This article analyses positivist and social constructionist perspectives on ambiguity in the context of their epistemological and ontological fundamental assumptions. The relational thesis of social constructionism is further analysed and it is argued that it constitutes a “weak thesis” concerning the relational constitution of human beings. In the second part, a dialogical alternative is elaborated. In this perspective, ambiguity is placed in the context of relationship and both are brought to an ontological ground. Therefore, it is argued, ambiguity is a fundamental property of human experience and plays a fundamental role in the constitution of (inter)subjective processes. The impact of this thesis on dialogical perspective on self is elaborated.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1174/021093906776173216pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/1563
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.subjectDialogismpt_PT
dc.subjectMeaning-makingpt_PT
dc.titleAmbiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychologypt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage32pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage19pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEstudios de Psicologíapt_PT
oaire.citation.volume27pt_PT
rcaap.rightsclosedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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