In this article we examine the process and the conditions of the reception, in Europe and particularly in France, of the concept of dialogisme. This movement started at a period when various linguistic theories ans models (functionnal, structural, transfomationnal) still impeded the development of a discourse analysis first anchored in human sciences (in the 1970's) before sociolinguistics, conversational analysis and pragmatics came to be imported and referred to by a developing body of research within the French-speaking context (1980's – 1990's). The author attempts to show and to explain how the decontextualization of the concept of dialogism allows to reconsider actual theories and to give dialogism itself a new impetus, on the condition to take into account the theorical dimensions and implications of this concept, and to bring new life to it through experimentation of strutured discursive data.