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Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse
Edited by Urszula Okulska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska
[Language and Dialogue 12:2] 2022
► pp. 197–217

Dialogic hypertextuality

Co-present meanings

| Duquesne University

This essay demarcates between and among schools of dialogue, differentiating relational points of meaning origins. Contrasting dialogic roots constitute distinctions in social meaning and signification. Schools of dialogue embrace the relational interplay of address and response, with exchanges consisting of multiple simultaneous conversations. Their co-presence announces dialogic hypertextuality, which acknowledges and affirms multiple simultaneous conversations and meanings within a given encounter. No single interpreter or meaning captures dialogic existence; meanings push the boundaries of any exchange, before, during, and after. Dialogic exchanges embody multiple discourses that call forth distinctive dimensions of meaning. As one speaks, multiple conversations, inclusive of previous and anticipatory dialogues, shape us. Conversation between and among persons dwells within an existential reality of dialogic hypertextuality.

Keywords: hypertextuality, dialogue, monologue, co-present meanings, multiplicity, modernity’s disdain
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction. Dialogic origins and hypertextuality: Co-present meanings
  • 2.Schools of dialogue: Relational origins
  • 3.Dialogic hypertextuality: Co-present conversations
  • 4.Dialogic meanings and hypertextuality
  • 5.Modernity’s disdain of hypertextuality
  • 6.Hypertextuality: The interplay of Saying and Said
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 August 2022
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