the possibility of sincerity depends upon its becoming dialogic in chracter, always requiring a response from the other to bring it into play

popular culture shapes the dialogic relationship between structure and agency

Universalism, claims the author of The Rights of Others, can only be dialogical – that is, it can only proceed from the gradual mutual recognition of moral positions that were initially opposed.

fiction itself is "dialogical," not just in the Bakhtinian sense that it gives credence to contradictory voices or viewpoints

the manifold text, which replaces the oneness of a thinking "I" with a multiplicity of subjects, voices, and views of the world, on the model of what Mikhail Bakhtin has called "dialogic" or "polyphonic" or "carnivalesque,"

we might think of Lila's notebook as an irrepressible paean to what Bahktin once called "novelness" -- a keen sense of language as dialogic, alive, and ever-shifting; revolutionary even.

The term "dialogic" here, and elsewhere in this study, is intentionally ambiguous. It refers both to Bakhtinian dialogism--that is, pertaining to double-voicedness, either narrative or linguistic--and to the state of being in dialogue.