TY - JOUR
T1 - Coding empathy in dialogue
AU - Macagno, Fabrizio
AU - Rapanta, Chrysi
AU - Mayweg-Paus, Elisabeth
AU - Garcia-Milà, Mercè
N1 - PTDC/FER-FIL/28278/2017
H2020-CULT-COOP-7-2017-770045-DIALLS
UIDB/00183/2020
UIDP/00183/2020
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Common ground
KW - Dialogue
KW - Empathy
KW - Intercultural communication
KW - Other-orientedness
KW - Pragmatics
KW - Relevance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126534633&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.02.011
DO - 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.02.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126534633
SN - 0378-2166
VL - 192
SP - 116
EP - 132
JO - Journal of Pragmatics
JF - Journal of Pragmatics
ER -