In the construction of a theoretical-methodological instrument, aimed to understand and investigate relational and situated human developmental processes, the notion of dialogism was reached. Seeking to make this notion more explicit, a bibliographical review and reading of bakhtinian propositions were carried out and presented in this study. Theoretical-methodological issues and practical implications were raised during the analysis, which appoint to issues like the place of the otherness in the self and human development. A series of issues concerning the research process is discussed. Finally, a mother-infant interactional episode is analyzed through the concept of dialogism. The analysis appoints to the need of considering the body in the investigation process. It also indicates the search for language notion that goes beyond its verbal dimension and re-conceptualization of culture as discursive practice.
Dialogism; Language; Culture; Infants