| Abstrakt: |
This essay examines capoeira-the dynamic dance-fight-game of African-Brazilian origins-as a metaphor for dialogue, using the lens of co-cultural communication theory. After situating dialogue itself as constituted through contradiction and paradox, the author constructs an approach grounded in text, literature, and personal experience to identify five specific contradictions in capoeira. These are opening-closing, equality-hierarchy, inclusion-exclusion, intersubjectivity-subjugation, and present-past. These contradictions are explored for their relevance to intercultural dialogue among co-cultural communication groups. Implications and further directions for study are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
