The 'dia' in dialogue indicates "through" or flowing, and the 'logue' indicates logos.
If, as in Heraclitus, logos means "rational of being", then dialogue would indicate the flowing nature of the "rational of being", maybe the "flowing" nature of experience.
Dialogue, used by the Greeks, would not necessarily indicate speaking between persons because person is not a Greek word. Person is an English word deriving from the Latin persona meaning actor and the Greek proserpon meaning actors mask. When the Greeks used the word dialogue, it was hundreds of years before the occurance of the Latin persona.
BELOW ARE SOME DEFINITIONS from various sources regarding dialogue.
dia- or di- prefix
1. Through: diachronic.
2. Across: diatropism.
[Greek, from dia, through.]
dialogue or dialog (dì´e-lôg´, -lòg´) noun Abbr. dial.
1. A conversation between two or more people.
2. a. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. b. The lines or passages in a script that are intended to be spoken.
3. A literary work written in the form of a conversation: the dialogues of Plato.
4. Music. A composition or passage for two or more parts, suggestive of conversational interplay.
5. An exchange of ideas or opinions: achieving constructive dialogue with all political elements.
verb
dialogued or dialoged dialoguing or dialoging dialogues or dialogs verb, transitive
To express as or in a dialogue.
verb, intransitive
1. To converse in a dialogue.
2. Usage Problem. To engage in an informal exchange of views.
[Middle English dialog, from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos, conversation, from dialegesthai, to discuss. See DIALECT.]
- di´alog´uer noun
Usage Note: In recent years the verb sense of dialogue meaning "to engage in an informal exchange of views" has been revived, particularly with reference to communication between parties in institutional or political contexts. Although Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Carlyle used it, this usage today is widely regarded as jargon or bureaucratese. For example, 98 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the sentence, Critics have charged that the department was remiss in not trying to dialogue with representatives of the community before hiring the new officers.
dialect (dì´e-lèkt´) noun
Abbr. dial.
[French dialecte, from Old French, from Latin dialectus, form of speech, from Greek dialektos, speech, from dialegesthai, to discourse, use a dialect : dia-, between, over. See DIA- + legesthai, middle voice of legein, to speak.]
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The 'dia' in dialogue indicates "through" or flowing, and the 'logue' indicates logos.
If, as in Heraclitus, logos means "rational of being", then dialogue would indicate the flowing nature of the "rational of being", maybe the "flowing" nature of experience.
Dialogue, used by the Greeks, would not necessarily indicate speaking between persons because person is not a Greek word. Person is an English word deriving from the Latin persona meaning actor and the Greek proserpon meaning actors mask. When the Greeks used the word dialogue, it was hundreds of years before the occurance of the Latin persona.
Heraclitus says LOGOS means "rational of being."
Tillich says LOGOS means the "Reasonable Structure of being", the "Self Manifestation of Being".