Developmental origins of the dialogical self: some significant moments

The following considerations have been developed on the background of a concept of dialogicity, which is thought of as fundamental to humans from the moment they come into life, forming their condition in development as well as in outer and inner activities. This line of thought not only is attached to dialogical philosophy (Buber 1997), but also is found in the works of thinkers interested in language, such as Humboldt (1994) and Bakhtin (1986), and in contemporary dialogical psychology (Hermans and Kempen 1993).1