Dialogism is a doctrine or orientation based on dialogue.
Dialogue is a semiotic process of mutual exchange, often used as a model to explain or shed light on phenomena that are not otherwise used as a reference to this process.
For example, experience is seen as a dialogical process – as an exchange between the Self and others. Such a view was defended by the American pragmatists Charles S. Peirce and John Dewey.
Understood in this way, experience is neither inside nor outside the Self, but between the selves.
Martin Buber’s category of intermediateness was created to show a way of thinking other than the impasse of terms such as external and internal, personal and social.
Thus, thinking itself is constructed as dialogue. In many of Plato’s dialogues, we find the characterization of thinking as the soul communicating with itself, and Peirce never got tired of repeating that all our thinking takes the form of dialogue. He even goes so far as to say that “successful research […] is a conversation with nature…” (CP 6.568).
Dialogism is a frequently used term in explaining Mikhail Bakhtin‘s concept of language.
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