Dialogue and Dialogism

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“…Here, language emerges as a contested site in continual ‘struggle’ between uniformity and difference; negotiated on an ongoing basis; restlessly and endlessly (Holquist, 1983: 309). Bakhtin positions language and communication as a polyphonic, living, energetic and contested performance bearing the potential to embrace others and otherness in a radical, outlook-changing way (see De Man, 1983: 102).…”

The Invention of Deconstruction

“…This period was also marked by the appearance of several publications designed specifically for an American readership, 45 and Derrida's increasing involvement in the departments of American universities. Not only was this ongoing process prematurely summarized and assessed by these immediate retrospectives, but the logic of domestication was roundly challenged geographically, by Derrida's increased presence in the United States, and through his continued, enormous productivity after the death of his mediator and disciple, de Man, in 1983. The ongoing self-modification of deconstruction would eventually far exceed the terms on which these commentators had sought to pin it down.…”

The puzzle of metaphor and voice in arts‐based social research

“…This separating out of multi-voicedness from multi-signedness (i.e. that poetry is semiotic, whilst dialogism is voiced) is illustrated in de Man's (2003) citing of Bakhtin (1981) on this subject: (no) matter how one understands the interrelationship of meanings in a poetic symbol (or trope) this relationship is never of the dialogical sort; it is impossible under any conditions or at any time to imagine a trope (say a metaphor) being unfolded into the two exchanges of a dialogue, that is two meanings parcelled out between two separate voices. (de Man, 2003, p. 345) Under what principles does Bakhtin come to this conclusion?…”