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Monologic Imagination

Monologic Imagination

Tomlinson, Matt
Millie, Julian

Paperback

Series: Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language

LinguisticsPublic Speaking & Speech WritingAnthropology

ISBN10: 0190652810
ISBN13: 9780190652814
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 8 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently dialogical. No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others, past and future. Moreover, we never fashion ourselves entirely by ourselves, but always do so in concert with others. Bakhtin thus decisively reshaped modern understandings of language and subjectivity. And yet, the contributors to this volume argue that something is potentially overlooked with too close a focus on dialogism: many speakers, especially in charged political and religious contexts, work energetically at crafting monologues, single-voiced statements to which the only expected response is agreement or faithful replication. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the United States, Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, Algeria, and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that a focus on the monologic imagination gives us new insights into languages' political design and religious force, and deepens our understandings of the necessary interplay between monological and dialogical tendencies.

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