ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the main results from a comprehensive research project focusing on and comparing dialogue as idea, on the one hand, and dialogue as shown in its empirical concretizations, on the other hand. The project was carried out during the years 2008–2011 and financed by the Swedish Research Council. 1 Substudies within the project were realized with varying approaches, the common denominator being that they are all based on theories of meaning-making. The studies have concerned dialogue and conversation in a European philosophical discourse, in Swedish educational policy documents, in policy documents concerning medical service, and in empirical dialogues in upper secondary school as well as at health centers.
