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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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Authorizing an End: The Isaiah Apocalypse and Intertextuality

Donald C. Polaski - 2001 - 440 pages
...entered from a variety of perspectives and that cannot be simply reduced to a single, monologic meaning." Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...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...
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Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism

Jennifer Hyndman - 2000 - 290 pages
...between cultures daily, review and assess whether they were conceptually and culturally translatable.18 "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...property of the speaker's intentions; it is populated — over populated with the intentions of others. Expropriating, forcing it to submit to one's own...
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The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony

Denise Riley - 2000 - 236 pages
...over, no longer mine to recall and revise? 'The word in language is half someone else's. [ . . . ] Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...private property of the speaker's intentions; it is populated—overpopulated—with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to...
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The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics

Susan Friend Harding - 2000 - 358 pages
...other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own. . . . Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own...accents, is a difficult and complicated process." 19. "It seems to me that to explain what is involved in [witchcraft] situations simply by talking of...
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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin - 2000 - 532 pages
...iall 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 and easily into the private property ol the speaker's intentions; it is populated - overpopulated - with the intentions of others. Expropriating...
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Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire

Theresa M. Lillis - 2001 - 212 pages
...now speaks them; 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...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. (1981:294) Bakhtin's emphasis on the struggles and tensions involved in individual meaning making is...
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Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist

Bernard W. Bell - 2001 - 308 pages
...if they put themselves in quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a ncutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. ( Dialogic Imagination 293-94 ' The Calibanic, male sexist discourse of Ail-Night Visitors is clearly...
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Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other

Peter I. Barta - 2001 - 288 pages
...own" requires traversing that border — not always an easy task. For ''[l]anguage is not a neutrai medium that passes freely and easily into the private...and accents. is a difficult and complicated process" tDM. 293,294). Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith detail how this process works for women writing autobiography;...
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Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban

James W. Coleman - 2001 - 216 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...others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. (293-94) The quotation from Bakhtin...
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Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

Sidonie Smith - 2001 - 318 pages
...ahout what happens locally, at the intersection of text and context. CHAPTER 3 Autobiographical Acts Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...populated— overpopulated — with the intentions of others. MM Bakhrin, Discourse ni The .Vourf All these people — producers, coaxers, consumers — are engaged...
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