2025 Theses Doctoral

Mapping Internally Persuasive Discourse: A Post-intentional Phenomenological Look at Korean American Adolescents’ Responses in Book Group Dialogue

Chong, Lisa

This study explores how two Korean American adolescents think and learn through responding dialogically in an out-of-school book group facilitated by a Korean American educator. Employing Vagle’s post-intentional phenomenology as the guiding methodology and Sullivan’s dialogical approach for data analysis, the author maps the movements of the participants’ responses in key moments when tension is present in order to understand how and when they may be engaging in Bakhtin’s concept of Internally Persuasive Discourse.

Upon mapping the dialogic engagements, the author is persuaded that collective thinking is occurring in the time-space of an IPD. To illustrate the movement as well as the chronotope of an IPD, the author delineates a visual representation of IPD to assert that it unfolds as a temporary manifold in a dialogic time-space when responses are responded to in ways that generate tension and invite further response.