 | 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...language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dale M. Bauer - 1988 - 228 pages
...it. "It becomes 'one's own,'" Bakhtin explains, "only when the speaker populates it with his [or her] own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention" (DI 293). Maggie's attempt to make her father's word into her own "private property," to wrest it from... | |
 | 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...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention .... Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the... | |
 | Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz - 1989 - 248 pages
...subject's linguistic alienation when he states that Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word docs not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts,... | |
 | 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...language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts,... | |
 | 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...language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts,... | |
 | 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...language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's somatized... | |
 | 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...language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's concrete... | |
 | Margaret Himley - 1991 - 241 pages
...words used in other contexts to express others' accents and intonations and meanings. As Bakhtin says, "The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention" (Dialogic, p. 293). In fact, Bakhtin talks about the three participants in a discourse event: the speaker,... | |
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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. 
