Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric:
- noun A necessary inference having a single premise and a disjunctive conclusion: as, Enoch and Elijah did not die; hence, either Enoch and Elijah were not men, or some men do not die.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An imaginary speech or discussion between two or more; dialogue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
imaginary speech ordiscussion between two or more.
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Examples
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Bakhtin's development of what he called "dialogism" perhaps reflected his own necessarily secret attitudes to Orthodoxy.
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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.
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning... Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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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.
Archive 2007-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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But I am not off my head, only displaying the confidence that comes from long experience of auto-dialogism.
Speak Thyself 2008
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Auto-dialogism is a useful word I recently invented, denoting a tendency to converse with oneself.
Speak Thyself 2008
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Adolescent footballers often do it, muttering scurrilities when they are thwarted on the field, and the notorious grunting of tennis players is a variety of auto-dialogism.
Speak Thyself 2008
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Most of the mouth-filling terms he coined – dialogism, double-voicedness, chronotope, heteroglossia, multi-accentuality – have passed into the lexicon of contemporary criticism.
Speedlinking 6/29/07 William Harryman 2007
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CHASE from somewhere near the ceiling: I don't suppose we could inject a little more dialogism into the writing of our scripts?
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CHASE from somewhere near the ceiling: I don't suppose we could inject a little more dialogism into the writing of our scripts?
LP in the House 2006
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QUOTATION: The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
Quotations 1919
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