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dialogism

noun

the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation.

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Word length
9
Starts with
D
Ends with
M
Contains
IA
Scrabble score
13
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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noun

  1. the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation.

    “What caught my eye about this is that it bears interesting relation to Bakhtin's concept of the dialogism of the ‘living word’ — in fact, capitalize that ‘w’ and it would be downright eerie.”

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What caught my eye about this is that it bears interesting relation to Bakhtin's concept of the dialogism of the ‘living word’ — in fact, capitalize that ‘w’ and it would be downright eerie.
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