Dialogue is one of the core conceptions of Gadamer's hermeneutics. In his view, understanding is an event of dialogue, namely, the understanding of historical event is a dialogue between the historical event and the interpreter. In his discussion on language, Gadamer emphasizes the dialogical nature of language, and considers dialogue carried out equally as the condition to reveal linguistic function. In his later writings, Gadamer employed dialogue to offset writing advocated by Derrida, thereby defended t...