A Gramscian reading of language in Bakhtin and Voloshinov

Publication date: Available online 6 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Alen SućeskaAbstractBoth Bakhtin and Voloshinov were very keen to show that language is socially stratified and that this stratification corresponds in form to the stratification between social groups or classes. Through a comparative analysis of their concepts such as 'speech genres'/'behavioural genres', 'heteroglossia'/'multiaccentuality', 'refraction' etc, this paper will aim to show how both of the authors offer a convincing theoretical framework for a social and historical approach to language which stresses its class character. It is exclusively through such an approach that a coherent 'Marxist' account of language can be developed, both contrary to vulgar Marxism which se...

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