...to see Chaucer as a novelist, not a poet. For Bakhtin, all language is conducive to heteroglossia: 'As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...other. The word in language is half someone else's'. 1 Bakhtin sees poetry as the form that resists this, working against the odds and in a state of tension...

...takes on form and meaning. The crucial fact attending all concrete discourse in Bakhtin's view is this: "language, for the individual consciousness, lies...other. The word in language is half someone else's." Before someone appropriates a word for his or her own purposes "it exists in other people's mouths,...

...Novel" to fit the vagaries of his schema. Thus, Emerson and Holquist provide the following translation: "As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other."9 Robinson claims to "double voice" the quotation according to his own devices: "As a living,...

...is the social intention and implied stratification that such a conception holds. To quote Bakhtin, "As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...on the borderline between oneself and the other." 40 Because language is a collective creation it is always "half someone else's," but it also becomes...

...terms employed by Bakhtin in his description of the normative dialogical formation of the subject: As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderDilVlQ line between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...

...the Necessity of Collusion in Conversation RP McDERMOTT AND HENRY TYLBOR INTRODUCTION Language . . . lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. -MM Bakhtin In 1928, VN Voloshinov1 complained that "all linguistic categories, per se, are applicable...

...words and forms that can belong to 'no one'. . . . As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing . . . language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other" (p. 293). Therefore, language can never be analyzed outside social, historical, and cultural human...

...Ethnographic fieldwork then becomes a series of conversations wherein according to Bakhtin, 'language lies on the borderline between oneself and the other..... . . the word in language is half someone else's' (1953: 293). Bakhtin uses the term 'heteroglossia' to describe this process (see Bakhtin 1953,1981)....

...ethnocriticism (Bakhtin 1981; Morson and Emerson 1989). As Gates, quoting Bakhtin, writes, Language ... lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's ... the word does not exist in a neutral or impersonal language ... but rather it exists in other people's...

...which problematic feelings about the self can be displaced. —Ernst van Alphen, "The Other Within" As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...other. The word in language is half someone else's. —Mikhail Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel" IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT ALTERITY CAN BE "DISCOVERED"...