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Article published In: Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
[Language and Dialogue 7:1] 2017
► pp. 45–62

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The speech we do not speak

Dialogic mind, praxis, and ethics

 | Denison University (USA)
Published online: 29 June 2017
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Abstract
This essay investigates three distinct modalities of the dialogic: dialogic mind, dialogic praxis, and dialogic ethics. Although each modality shares central dialogic characteristics of polyphony, polymodality, and polychronicity (Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Holquist. Austin: University of Texas.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, 1984. Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics. edited by Michael Holquist. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, 1986. Speech Genres & Other Late Essays. Translated by Vern McGee. Austin: University of Texas.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Lipari, Lisbeth. 2014. Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement. State College, PA: Penn State University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), each also differs in important ways, some of which are lost by using the single word ‘dialogue’ to refer to them. Rather, I will here explore how the dialogic is not merely a mode of communicative praxis, but it is also a mode of communicative consciousness and a mode of communicative ethics. Each dialogic modality describes different manifestations of what might otherwise be called the dialogic; each mode differs from the others in important ways while also sharing similar attributes.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Dialogue: Through the logos
    • 2.1Dialogic mind: Communicative consciousness
    • 2.2Dialogic praxis: Turn-taking and uptake
    • 2.3Dialogic ethics: Alterity as interdependent and relation as provisional
  • 3.Conclusion: Implications for trans-ontological research
  • Notes
  • References
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