Scholarship on trajectories of becoming with literate activities is of growing interest in Writing Studies, particularly in accounts of writing grounded in cultural-historical and dialogic approaches, and in lifespan accounts of writing. The research reported here contributes to those conversations by tracing trajectories of becoming that are dynamically nonlinear, necessarily messy, and predicated on exceptionally complex streams of times, places, life experiences, artifacts, and literate activities. I draw from one case study with Alex, once a deeply faithful Christian who, over complex trajectories of semiotic becoming, lost her faith and was left to make sense of drastic perspectival shifts, in large part, through literate activity. Weaving analyses of talk across 2 years, 15 interviews, and multiple texts and textual interactions, I trace a narrative of Alex’s trajectories of unbecoming/becoming. I argue that Writing Studies needs flexible, theoretically grounded methods to trace becoming across lifespan trajectories and I address this imperative by showcasing one approach—dialogic animation protocols coupled with dialogic analyses.

关于文学活动的发展轨迹的学术研究对写作研究越来越感兴趣，尤其是基于文化历史和对话方法的写作描述，以及写作的生命周期描述。此处报告的研究通过追踪动态非线性的生成轨迹为这些对话做出贡献，必然是凌乱的，并以极其复杂的时间、地点、生活经历、文物和文学活动为基础。我借鉴了亚历克斯的一个案例研究，她曾经是一位非常忠诚的基督徒，她在符号学的复杂轨迹中失去了信仰，并在很大程度上通过识字活动来理解剧烈的视角转变。对 2 年的谈话、15 次采访、多个文本和文本交互进行编织分析，我追踪了亚历克斯不适合/成为的轨迹的叙述。我认为写作研究需要灵活的、理论基础的方法来追踪跨越生命周期的轨迹，我通过展示一种方法来解决这一必要性——对话动画协议与对话分析相结合。