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This article aims to illustrate the status and the role of dialogue sequence based on Jean-Michel Adam’s theory of textual linguistics. There are many doubts as to whether a dialogue itself can become the object of study or the unit of analysis in textual linguistics. However it is important to denote that the statement ‘already’ considered as the subject of fundamental study of linguistics is produced at the moment when it is enunciated, i.e. dialogue. In addition, because there are so many parameters in a dialogue that has to be taken into account, it is difficult to prototype all of them for the study of a text. Textual linguistics should consider these problems when adopting the method of text analysis for the study of the dialogue. In this respect, Adam’s proposal to take dialogue as one of the sequences is significant, in that, if we can analyze the dialogue in a systematic way, we may be able to ameliorate the structure of the texts substantially. This paper proposes two features of the dialogical sequence. First, the phatic sequence is placed at the beginning and at the end. Moreover, the dialogue is defined as an act. These particularities of the dialog allow us to grasp the characters’ activity depicted in the text. To ensure the status of the dialogue as a unit of analysis, we need to prove that the dialogical sequence plays the same role as the other sequences. The paper analyzes an extract of a Korean fiction, “Wandoogi.” The analysis showed that the dialogue sequence can dominate the other sequences. In other words, a dialogue sequence can assimilate the role of an embedding sequence. The dialogue sequence should be given a specific position in textual analysis due to its mediating attributes.