The interactive interpretation of texts through dialogic literary gatherings

This article is a reflection on the dialogic communicative acts in the process of interactive text interpretation and their effects on social transformation. Contrary to structuralist analysis, such as Bourdieu's, in which text interpretation is linked to the habitus of the reader, authors like Bakhtin defend the dialogic interpretation of the texts. One of the successful actions analysed in the INCLUDED research project is the experience of the dialogic literary gatherings, where a group of adults or a group of children from families with low SES share the reading of classic works from universal literature. People show -through their dialogic communicative acts- that there is not only one expert interpretation, thus overcoming the interaction of power in traditional academic contexts.