DICA-mi

dica-mi focuses on discourse-in-interaction accomplishments by specific groups (e.g., age, societal, professional, linguistic) acting within highly diversified multilingual and multimodal settings. A major emphasis is put on

• Interaction processes, systematics & effects (multimodal; multilingual; visual/non-visual; referential; verbal/non-verbal; identity)
• The development of discourse competences related to specific knowledge domains and their situated construction in interaction.
• Dynamics of knowledge-building within multi-modal, multi-medial and/or multi-lingual settings and/or related to specific items of learning (e.g., linguistic, technical).

methodological and theoretical issues of analyzing the situated nature of learning and development in shared activities based on multiple data (video, audio, multi-perspective) and their epistemologically grounded documentation and exploitation in digital systems of data-bases and systematic data-treatment.