It has been nearly fifty years since Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) put forward the term "dialogic imagination" in the title of his four essays on language and the novel, thereby announcing a new direction in linguistic and literary research. In the present volume, we revisit Bakhtinian (and marginally Buberian) thought from three perspectives: discourse, literary text, and interaction in educational settings. It is how we intend to pay tribute and homage to the div...