The Metadialogistic Dimensions of Dialogue

Intra and interpersonal communication occurs in and through language and other semiotic resources.  Unfortunately, mainstream linguistics has been monological and belongs to rationalism, with a tinge of empiricism and hallowed objectivism going all the way from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Frege to Chomsky. This has affected our understanding of the self and the other relation and often dialogue is construed...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao