From language to listening

This article deals with the study of language understood as a system of signs to, from a critical perspective, propose a practical and dialogical conception of communicative interaction. Emphasis is placed on the issue of listening as the main axis from which to re-frame the consideration of language as a social practice without reducing it to a monological approach. Listening, thus, is proposed as a form of openness and creative, controversial detour, with implications both in relation to the poetic function of language and its political dimension.