RT Article
T1 Being Human Dialogically: Literary Perspectives and Projects
JF Journal of Dharma
VO 42
IS 1
SP 3
OP 8
A1 Nandhikkara, Jose
LA English
PB Dharmaram College
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837812292
AB 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.
K1 Dialogue
K1 Homo Loquens
K1 Human
K1 Literary Perspective
K1 Sprachspiel