Dialogic hypertextuality
Co-present meanings
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.
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
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