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" 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,... "
Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power
by Kathleen Weiler - 1988 - 174 pages
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The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia

Vieda Skultans - 1998 - 244 pages
...Forest narratives must be read bearing in mind Bakhtin's reminder of the partisan nature of language: 'Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others' (ibid., p. 294). Latvian forests resonate with folkloric and literary associations. The forest figured...
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Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color

Sandra Kumamoto Stanley - 1998 - 364 pages
...other in many different ways" (291). As a consequence, language "is not a neutral medium"; rather, "it is populated— overpopulated — with the intentions...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process" (294). Language dominated by heteroglossia is dialogic; in Bakhtin's editors' words, it is marked by...
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Vygotsky Today: On the Verge of Non-classical Psychology

Aleksandr Grigorʹevich Asmolov - 1998 - 142 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...private property of the speaker's intentions; it is populated~overpopulated~wit the intentions of others. (1981, pp. 293-294) As I re-read these lines...
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Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words

Michael Bell, Michael E Gardiner - 1998 - 252 pages
...'conceived' or 'posited' (zadan). 'Language', Bakhtin writes, 'is not a neutral medium that passes free and easily into the private property of the speaker's...populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others'(1981: 294). The Logos of Heterotopia: The Dialogics of Difference To be alone is no longer...
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Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger

Lyn Mikel Brown - 1999 - 290 pages
...fall out of it; it is as if they put themselves into quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the si eaker's intentions; it is populated—overpopulated—with the intentions of others. Expropriating...
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Anthology: Issues 6-10

British Council - 1999 - 138 pages
...functions. Di Pietro (1987) and more recently Kramsch (1993 p. 27) invoke Bakhtin's view of language: '[It] is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily...and accents is a difficult and complicated process.' This feeling that language will always be encrusted with the meanings that others have given it is...
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Women and Autobiography

Martine Watson Brownley, Allison B. Kimmich - 1999 - 242 pages
...upon which competing notions of truthtelling vie. Since, as Bakhtin argues, "expropriating [language], forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process," on that ground the autobiographer wields words with greater and lesser degrees of self-consciousness.24...
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Romantic Poems, Poets, and Narrators

Joseph C. Sitterson - 2000 - 228 pages
...This is because we cannot master the language necessary to our imaginations. As MM Bakhtin puts it, "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process."'9 We need to add that this process of expropriation is not just difficult but impossible...
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Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach

Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 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...— with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, Grand Theory III forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated...
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Deciphering Culture: Ordinary Curiosities and Subjective Narratives

Jane Crisp, Kay Ferres, Gillian Swanson - 2000 - 244 pages
...which it has liced ils sorially charged lij'e: all words and forms arc populated hy intentions .... Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others. (Bakhtin 1981: 293-4. my emphasis) It is perhaps in the social interactivity of discourse. more than...
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