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" Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression of the historical processes of linguistic unification and centralization, an expression of the centripetal forces of language. A unitary language is not something given [dan] but is always in essence... "
To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola - Page 20
by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston - 1995 - 260 pages
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Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics

Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 1108 pages
...made by tiny and unsystematic alterations. Indeed, the wholeness of any cultural artifact is never "something given, but is always in essence posited — and at every moment ... is opposed to the realities of heteroglossia" or other centrifugal forces (DiN, p. 270). As a result,...
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Evolution and Literary Theory

Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 1096 pages
...of poetic discourse "are the forces that serve to unify and centralize the verbal-ideological world. Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression...expression of the centripetal forces of language." Bakhtin prophesies that these oppressive forces of consolidation will ultimately be defeated by "the...
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Narrating the Past: Fiction and Historiography in Postwar Spain

David K. Herzberger - History - 1995 - 204 pages
...language. A unitary language is not something given [Jan] but is always in essence posited \^adan\—and at every moment of its linguistic life it is opposed to the realities of heteroglossia" (270). When Max Aub complains that the style of Spanish narrative during the 1950s is "administrative...
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Language in History: Theories and Texts

Tony Crowley - Language and culture - 1996 - 228 pages
...in order to satisfy a methodological difficulty. Bakhtin describes the process in the following way: Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression...centralization, an expression of the centripetal forces in language. A unitary language is not something given (dan) but it always in essence posited (zadari)...
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Refiguring La Fontaine: Tercentenary Essays

Anne Lynn Birberick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 272 pages
...Bakhtin's dialogic view of literary art. Describing what he calls "unitary language," Bakhtin states that "at every moment of its linguistic life it is opposed to the realities of heteroglossia" (Dl 270). In similar terms, he asserts that "the centripetal forces of the life of language, embodied...
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Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian ...

Webb Keane - Social Science - 2023 - 332 pages
...speaking. To appropriate Bakhtin's description of relations between standard and nonstandard languages, "A unitary language is not something given but is always in essence posited—and at every moment of its linguistic life it is opposed to the realities of heteroglossia"...
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Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical ...

Gerald L. Bruns - Literary Collections - 1999 - 315 pages
...Bakhtin says, "constitutes the theoretical expression ... of the centripetal forces of language . . . and at every moment of its linguistic life it is opposed to the realities of heteroglossia." The heteroglossia is centrifugal, anarchic. Unitary language is lawlike: "a common unitary language...
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The Stalin Era

Philip Boobbyer - Soviet Union - 2000 - 276 pages
...influences of twentiethcentury literary criticism. Document 12.17Bakhtin's 'Discourse in the Novel' Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression...language. A unitary language is not something given [dan] but is always in essence posited [zadan] - and at everv moment of its linguistic life it is opposed...
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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin - Art - 2000 - 532 pages
...language. These forces are the forces that serve to unify and centralize the rerhal-ideological world. Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression...language. A unitary language is not something given (dan) but is always in essence posited (zadan) — and at every moment of its linguistic life it is...
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Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach

Michael McKeon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 972 pages
...language. These forces are the forres that serve to unify and rentralize the verbalideological world. Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression...centralization, an expression of the centripetal forces ot language. A unitary language is not something given [dan] but is always in essence posited [zadan]...
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