...creative understanding, as we have suggested earlier, the interpreter creates a special sort of dialogue. "A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures" (RQ, p. 7). The result of these dialogues is to enrich both the text and its interpreter....

...is only in the eyes of another culture that foreign culture reveals itself fully and profoundly. ... A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures. We raise new questions for a foreign culture, ones that it did not raise itself; we...

...as we have seen, can confront both textual and cultural meaning. Any such "meaning," writes Bakhtin, "only reveals its depths once it has encountered and...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures" (7). This desire for an externalized encounter with the "foreign" — for something...

...U of Texas P, 1 986) 7, where his theories on discourses in the novel are given a wider relevance: "A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered and come into contact with another, foreign word of another both interfere between subject and object. Bakhtin recognizes this primary event, but...

...interpersonal communication research requires a dialogical model of understanding. Bakhtin (1986) writes that "a meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered...contact with another, foreign meaning: they engage in kind of a dialogue, which surmounts the closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings,...

...profoundly (but not maximally fully, because there will be cultures that see and understand even more). A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures. We raise new questions for a foreign culture, ones that it did not raise itself; we...

...meaning only reveals its depth once it has encountered and come into contact with another, forming the meaning; they engage in a kind of dialogue, which...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures" (1986, 7). Bakhtin's discussion of the process of understanding uses Gadamerian language...

...that foreign [chttzhaia] culture reveals itself." "A meaning only reveals its depths," he continues, "once it has encountered and come into contact with another, foreign meaning." However, this engagement does not entail a sheepish self-abnegation. Far from it. For "[w]ithout one's...

...place in time or culture and precisely for this reason can understand what is foreign about the other. "A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures."108 Significantly, this dialogue does not result in a merging or fusing (confusing)...

...profoundly (but not maximally fully, because there will be cultures that see and understand even more). A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered...closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures. We raise new questions for a foreign culture, ones that it did not raise itself; we...