O DIJALOGU
ON DIALOGUE

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a short historical overview of the extant research into dialogue. It focuses on the examination of different types of dialogue, properties of dialogue in texts, and the relationships between dialogue and communication and dialogue and monologue (dialogue and discussion). Modeled after Bakhtin’s theory, dialogicality is understood as an inherent property of each text. Along with explicit dialogicality, which is confirmed in situations where there is a speaker and an interlocutor (or a multitude of either or both), implicit dialogicality is a property of each text, even that which is strictly a monologue. In addition, dialogue is seen as a specific use of language, acommunication with a special, higher quality. Two people create a dialogue together; that is, they make something new (Bohm). This relates to the etymology of the word: the Greek dialogos, composed from dia (through) and logos (word), to give us “the meaning of the word”. Since we emphasize the creation of new meanings as the main value of dialogue, its participants are ultimately enriched by new standards and findings. In these qualities we recognize the essential differences between dialogue and communication as a wider notion,and especially between dialogue and discussion (debate).

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