Being Human Dialogically: Literary Perspectives and Projects

To live is to dialogue, and to dialogue is to live. As homo loquens, use of language is fundamental to and constitutive of being human, and all language use is dialogical. Even in silence we continue to speak and in monologues and confessions listeners are implicit. Language use, like any human prac...

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Auteur principal: Nandhikkara, Jose (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Dharmaram College 2017
Dans: Journal of Dharma
Année: 2017, Volume: 42, Numéro: 1, Pages: 3-8
Sujets non-standardisés:B Human
B Dialogue
B Homo Loquens
B Jeu de langage
B Literary Perspective
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Résumé:To live is to dialogue, and to dialogue is to live. As homo loquens, use of language is fundamental to and constitutive of being human, and all language use is dialogical. Even in silence we continue to speak and in monologues and confessions listeners are implicit. Language use, like any human practice, is objective and normative and it could be perceived and understood by other human beings. It is inherently social, even when no one is explicitly present. Though words have use and, hence, meaning only in a stream of life, to imagine a human form of life without language use is difficult, if not impossible, and such a life will be characteristically different from other human forms of life. We would not understand them as human.
ISSN:0253-7222
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma