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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. "
Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power
by Kathleen Weiler - 1988 - 174 pages
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars

Henry Louis Gates Jr. - 1993 - 220 pages
...between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a 43 neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets...
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American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory

Margo Culley - 1992 - 356 pages
...border between self and other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. (293) Because of the socially charged nature of words, the child Mary finds herself in particular conflict...
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Contexts for Learning

C. Addison Stone - 1993 - 410 pages
...from Bakhtin's claim that: The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...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...
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Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History

Stefan Tanaka - 1995 - 324 pages
...the multiplicity of words: The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...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,...
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Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-colonial Moment

David Lloyd - 1993 - 188 pages
...between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention, (p. 293) ... One's own discourse is gradually and slowly wrought out of others' words that have been...
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Reading Columbus

Margarita Zamora - 2023 - 268 pages
...between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention.12 Through his editorial interventions Las Casas not only insinuates himself into Columbus's...
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Social Worlds of Children: Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School

Anne Haas Dyson - 1993 - 278 pages
...for the children we teach. CHAPTER 8 AYESHA AND WILLIAM The Politics of Composing in the Third Grade The word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal...language (It is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his wordsl), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts,...
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A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin

Karen Ann Hohne, Helen Wussow - 1994 - 234 pages
...someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting...appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and personal language . . . but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's intentions:...
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An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the Linguistic Borderlands

Alfred Arteaga - 1994 - 316 pages
...between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention,...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. (293) One's own discourse is gradually and slowly wrought out of others' words that have been acknowledged...
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Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies

Kobena Mercer - 1994 - 356 pages
...because: The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when ... the speaker appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic...appropriation the word does not exist in a neutral or impersonal language . . . but rather it exists in other people's mouths, serving other people's...
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