Dialogism and Place

Holquist: Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (1990:47)

A definition

"Dialogism begins by visualizing existence as an event, the event of being responsible for (and to9 the particular situation existence assumes as it unfolds in the unique (and constantly changing) place I occupy in it....So long as I am in existence, I am in a particular place, and must respond to all of these stimuli either by ignoring them or in a response that takes the form of making sense, of producing...meaning out of such utterances"