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Noun: dialogism  dI'a-lu,jIz
  1. The use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation.
    "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."
     
  2. A discussion between two or more; use in writing of a discussion in the form of dialogue

Derived forms: dialogisms

Type of: rhetorical device

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