Meaning & use
Dialogical
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Relating to or conducted through dialogue; characterized by an exchange of ideas between two or more perspectives.
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The philosopher favored a dialogical method, testing ideas through back-and-forth questioning.
The novel's dialogical structure lets multiple narrators contradict and complicate each other.
A note on using this word
Central to the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, who used it to describe texts built from multiple interacting voices rather than one authoritative one.
Words with a similar meaning
dialogicconversational
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monological
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