Dialectic

"Both child and adult are engaged, shaped, and reshaped in an ongoing interplay – a continuous process, a continuum of existence within the everyday world. Both are shaped by mutual actions and reactions, utterances and replies, verbal and nonverbal cues, modifying and being modified at each interactional, affect-laden node."

~ Norma Gonzalez, I Am My Language: Discourses Of Women and Children In the Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, p. 62.