Patrizia Torricelli

Dialogue. Short Linguistic Gleanings about a Word’s Meaning

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Abstract

The linguistic analysis of dialogue reveals that the true meaning of the word, etymologically well founded, and historically proved, is: the communion of thoughts achieved through the words. Being by their nature arbitrary, the words don’t have sense without a culture, which confirms the imaginary value of their linguistic meaning. Every dialogue that would like to be a true dialogue must, therefore, be a culturally implemented exchange of words: that is, respectful of the images of the world delivered to them by the culture of every person with whom one is talking to.

Keywords

  • Dialogue
  • Etymology
  • Culture
  • Mind
  • Meaning

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