Textual-Discursive Dialogism: A Counterfactual Framework

This essay aims to undertake a study, in the light of concrete philosophy (Santos, 1956, 1960, 1967), of the counterfactual schematism within which dialogism is forged as an explanatory concept. Thus, in order to organise the formal architecture of this article, two sections are created: Criticism of dialogism, in which some comments about this metaphor developed by Bakhtin are described in an overview, and Counterfactual schematism of dialogism, in which the aim is to demonstrate its weaknesses through experiential exemplification. One of the results was the idealisation of dialogical relations and the weaknesses of dialogism in the face of authoritarian discourses, demonstrating, among other things, that the theoretical universalisation proposed by Bakhtin, although ingenious, often operates as an abstract schema, far removed from the concrete reality of discursive practices.