Mikhail M. Badhtin

(1895–1975), Russian cultural and literary theorist whose life and works remain the object of controversies. Several key episodes in his life are shrouded in mystery, and the textual history of his works is extremely complicated due in part to the political context in which they were written.
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Dialogical:
1) self----the soul of the idea----reflects the potentially capability, value.
2) self and others---- different language, no voice can be isolated.

In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in time, in space, in culture. For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space, and because they are others. ~New York Review of Books, June 10, 1993.

Anyone will have a other who think about him or her. The dialogue between people is not only oneself's thoughts in some culture and situation, but also the idea of the language reflects the point of view from others---- how others to see this oneself.
3)vocies: "averaged", "synthesized"---->truth.