The Monologic Imagination (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
Release date:	June 2017
Editors:	Matt Tomlinson (Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology) • Julian Millie (Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Anthropology Program)
Dimensions:	234 x 172 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-065281-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-19-065281-0
Barcode:	9780190652814

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