Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing

Volume 13

Frank Farmer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000150087
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The essays in this collection give voice to the plurality of approaches that scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition have when they set forth to assimilate Bakhtin for their varied purposes. The collection is arranged in three major sections. The first attempts to capture the most important theoretical extensions of Bakhtin's ideas, and does so with an emphasis on what Bakhtin might contribute to the present understanding of language and rhetoric. The next section explores the implications of Bakhtin's work for both disciplinary identity and writing pedagogy. The final section looks at how Bakhtinian thought can be used to bring new light to concerns that his work either does not address or could not have imagined addressing concerns ranging from writing across the curriculum to feminism, and from computer discourse to the writing of a corporation annual report. Together, these essays demonstrate how fruitfully and imaginatively Bakhtin's ideas can be appropriated for a context that he could not have anticipated. They also serve as an invitation to sustain the dialogue with Bakhtin in the future, so that researchers may yet come to realize the fortuitous ways that Bakhtin will continue to mean more than he said.

Index

A

abstract objectivism,83-84

academic discourse,82, 191-192, 228

communities,90, 91

learning and,86-88

official style,27-29, 31n, 130

reported speech,26

students'assumptions of,131, 132, 134, 137

writing instruction and,127-130, 138, 146

of writing teachers,31, 128, 187

see also: monologic and monologism

accents,xiii, xviii

accentuation,24

acts,see: speech acts

addressee,41, 84

superaddressee,xix, 85-86

see also: listener

addressivity,42-44, 234

and answerability in the classroom,236

defined,236, 239n

aesthetics,8-10, 43, 78

art and,64

ethics and,234, 238

Formalism's error and,66-67, 68-70, 74

human aesthetic activity,70, 71 -72

material,69

motives and,23

return of,2

alibis-for-being,xiii

alien voices,223

alienation,43, 55, 142

Allen, N., and Atkinson, Morgan, Moore, Snow,159, 180

quoted,160

Allen, Woody,2

allusion,32n

alterity,xix

Althusser, Louis, and Balibar,73

ambiguity,xi, xii-xiii, 5

ambivalence

Bakhtin...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• About the Editor
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing
• Theory, Language, Rhetoric
• Composition Studies, Pedagogy, Research
• Further Reading
• Index