New issue – v. 38, n. 1 (2025)

The journal Linha D’Água (University of São Paulo, Brazil) has just published a new issue on the theme: "Dialogues of Bakhtin's Work and the Circle with Other Theories and Areas of Knowledge."
This special issue includes 21 articles and three reviews that highlight the intersections between different fields of knowledge and theories with the thinking of Bakhtin and the Circle. These intersections are explored by the authors across two main axes:

1. The investigation of bibliographic sources from different theoretical traditions (philosophical idealism, Humboldt’s linguistic idealism, Russian formalism, phenomenology, religious philosophy, etc.). The works in this section examine how identifying the sources of Bakhtinian ideas is essential to understanding them — showing how these influences shed light on aspects of Bakhtin and the Circle’s theory.
   
   
2. Considering that Bakhtinian theory is increasingly engaging with various fields and theories, the works in this axis highlight the contributions of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle to those domains. A key concept in this discussion is contemporary transdisciplinarity, where a field is constituted through the movement of concepts from different disciplines. In this sense, the aim was to explore how Bakhtinian theory contributes to inherently interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary domains — such as education and applied linguistics in Brazil.

This thematic issue was guest-edited by Professor Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo (USP, Brazil).

We invite everyone to read the articles, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13662