Diálogos do presente: quais os sentidos? Quais as respostas?

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All content of Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY 4.0 EDITORIAL Contemporary dialogues: What meanings? Which answers? / Diálogos do presente: quais os sentidos? Quais as respostas? With meaning I give anwers to questions. Anything that does not answer a question is devoid of sense for us. Mikhail Bakhtin 1 The continuous dialogue in the pursuit of answers to constitute meanings is a characteristic of human beings; "Life by its very nature is dialogic." as Bakhtin (1984, p. 293) 2 had already claimed. In the unfortunate context we live, a global pandemic so politically charged in our contry, again we search for meanings. And socially motivated dialogues are not always able to answer our questions. Given the quarantine and intense changes we face, the attempts to understand both social and human reality have influenced significantly the number of submissions to the journal. Discourse investigators show how Brazilian language science has remained active and productive even under adverse circumstances, which include the governmental politics that have limited research funds in general. The articles, by focusing on different utterances, aim to understand reality in texts that reflect and refract it ceaselessly. Life, art and knowledge are interwoven, and ethical, aesthetical and cognitive stances value different discourses. As it is known, "the word functions as an essential ingredient accompanying all ideological creativity whatsoever" (Volosinov, 1973, p. 15; original italics). 3 Therefore, as usual, the articles presented here study and analyze aspects of vairous ideological creations. Some texts deepen theoretical matters. Others search for meanings in the literary, filmic, political, health discourses… 1 Bakhtin, M. M. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays.