Abstract

Basing on Vygotsky’s indirect methods framework, Bakhtin’s translinguistics approach, and the principles of the ergonomics of the activity, we analyze two sequences of self-confrontation between a researcher and an operator. We follow the evolution of the dialogue, without isolating the words and gestures of concrete actions, and we emphasize the signs reflecting people’s involvement in a new activity of interpretation of their professional experience. In this way, we implement the translinguistics advocated by Bakhtin within an approach encompassing the verbal and nonverbal dimensions mobilized in the coproduction of the meaning.