Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions, it is populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents,... The Bakhtin Circle Today - Page 133edited by - 1989 - 229 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Dominick LaCapra - 1983 - 356 pages
...and by the anonymous discursive practices of which individual speakers might have little awareness. "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process, "-w A principal defect of the conventional philosophy of language — one shared by linguists,... | |
| William L. Andrews - 1988 - 372 pages
..."to become an active participant in social dialogue." It Is also to engage in a power struggle, for "language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...private property of the speaker's intentions." It belongs to the other, and "expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents,... | |
| Robert R. Sherman, Rodman B. Webb - 1988 - 232 pages
...and material forces out of which individuals and groups fashion a voice. As Bakhtin (1981) puts it: Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process, (p. 294) If language is inseparable from lived experience and the development of how people... | |
| Dale M. Bauer - 1988 - 228 pages
...her father's speech and she struggles with it: to borrow Bakhtin's words about another's language, "[expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process,'" a process which Maggie comes to realize means sacrificing her father and taking control... | |
| Deborah P. Britzman - 1991 - 302 pages
...fall out of it; it is as if they put themselves in quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process.49 Words, and their meanings then, carry the intentions and contexts of historical subjects... | |
| Douglas Robinson - 1991 - 340 pages
...fall out of it; it is as if they put themselves in quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. (Emerson and Holquist's translation, slightly modified, 293-94) And, I would add, it is never... | |
| Philip M. Weinstein - 1992 - 210 pages
...Belsey. tion within the larger groups whose language we have adapted as our own. As Bakhtin writes, "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process" (294). This perspective sheds light on what is ideologically at stake in the fractured verbal... | |
| Geoffrey Galt Harpham - 1992 - 344 pages
...originating intention, not the property or tool of the individual ego, which in fact it always exceeds. "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...— overpopulated — with the intentions of others" (Dialogic Imagination 294). Each utterance achieves coherence or comprehensibility only through silencing... | |
| Linda S. Kauffman - 1992 - 300 pages
...other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own. . . . Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...the private property of the speaker's intentions. . . . Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and... | |
| Linda S. Kauffman - 1992 - 322 pages
...neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions. . . . Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. (DI, 293-94, 276-77) Walker's hybrid blending of epistolary and slave narrative is uniquely... | |
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