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" The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. "
Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and ... - Page 12
by Hok Bun Ku - 2003 - 287 pages
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Henry Louis Gates - 1989 - 322 pages
.... language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries

David Patterson - 188 pages
...speaking but spoken. Here we may recall Bakh tin's remark in The Dialogic Imagination, where he says, "The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...when the speaker populates it with his own intention" (293). Where Bakhtin writes intention we may read resolve; it is the tensing in, the gathering of oneself...
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Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community

Dale M. Bauer - 1988 - 228 pages
...show that she possesses herself. Let me return to Bakhtin's explanation that the "word" or language becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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The Bakhtin Circle Today

Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz - 1989 - 248 pages
...opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention .... Language...
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Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography

G. Thomas Couser - 1989 - 298 pages
...her narrative also manages to elude the gender trap and to authorize a woman's Life. 10 Conclusion The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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Chinua Achebe

Catherine Lynette Innes - 1992 - 224 pages
...Ik Language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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The Translator's Turn

Douglas Robinson - 1991 - 340 pages
...opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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Shared Territory: Understanding Children's Writing as Works

Margaret Himley - 1991 - 241 pages
...opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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Voices of the Mind: Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action

James V. Wertsch - 1991 - 176 pages
...1981), the process whereby one voice speaks through another voice or voice type in a social language: "The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach

Deborah P. Britzman - 1991 - 302 pages
...opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this...
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