1. How many different synonyms and equivalent phrases can you list that come
close to capturing what Baxter means by the word dialectic? What do these
words have in common?
2. Which of the theories discussed in previous chapters would Baxter consider
simplistic or monologic? How might those theories become more dialogic?
3. Look at your phone and find the most recent text message you received. How
is this utterance part of a larger chain? How do distant and nearby discourses
give it meaning? How about already–spoken and not–yet–spoken discourses?
4. What conflicting discourses do you hear in your closest personal relationship? Do
these discourses appear in diachronic separation or synchronic interplay? Wh
