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    This document provides an overview of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism through a departmental presentation. It summarizes Bakhtin's major works, key concepts around dialogism including heteroglossia, the intersubjective nature of language, and literature as social discourse. Bakhtin viewed language as dialogic rather than unitary, and the world as an open-ended process shaped through dialogue rather than monologue. Literature, for Bakhtin, was a social form that brings different voices and perspectives into interaction.

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    Some of the key takeaways from the document are that Bakhtin proposed concepts like dialogism, heteroglossia and the idea that language and meaning are shaped through social interaction and discourse.

    Some of Bakhtin's major works discussed are Problems in the Work of Dostoevsky, Discourse in the Novel, The Problem of Speech Genres, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics and Rabelais and His World.

    Important concepts proposed by Bakhtin include heteroglossia, dialogism, the idea that meaning is shaped through social interaction, and concepts like simultaneity, architectonic and outsidedness.

    Departmental Presentation

    Mikhail Bakhtin and His Theory of Dialogism


    Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
    Jaswinder Singh
    Ph D scholar HSS

    16/09/2014

    Mikhail Bakhtin: Major works

    Art and Answerability (1919), Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity


    (1920-24), The Problem of Content, Material and Form in Verbal Art
    (1924) as in Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Works by M M
    Bakhtin ed. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapinov, University of Texas Press,
    1990.
    Problems in the Work of Dostoevsky (1929) trans. by Caryl Emerson in
    Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges, Northwestern University
    Press, 1989.
    Discourse in the Novel (1934-38) From the Prehistory of Novelistic
    Discourse (1940), Epic and Novel (Toward a methodology for the
    study of the novel) (1941) as in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by
    M M Bakhtin ed. Michael Holquist, University of Texas Press, 1981.
    The Problem of Speech Genres (1951-52) as in Speech Genres and
    Other Late Essays ed. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson, University of
    Texas Press, 1986.
    Problems of Dostoevskys Poetics ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson,
    Minneapolis University Press, 1963.
    Rabelais and His World, trans. Helene Iswolsky, Indiana University Press,
    1984.

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Nature/Culture

    Dialectic/Dialogue

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism

    Authority/monologue vs. Dialogue

    Self and the Other

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Is language
    Unitary/centralized/centripetal?
    Passive/abstract?
    Neutral/impersonal?

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Heteroglossia
    Individual consciousness

    Social Consciousness

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    World: an open ended/ unfinalized process
    Idea never finalizes
    Sign/Word/utterance has two sided directionality
    Idea/word/utterance: intersubjective territory

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Important Quotations:
    The living utterance, having taken meaning and shape at a
    particular historical moment in a socially specific environment, can
    not fail to brush up against thousands of living dialogic threads,
    woven by socio-ideological consciousness around the given object
    of utterance; it cannot fail to become an active participant in social
    dialogue. (The Dialogic Imagination, 276)
    Any utterance- from a short (single word) rejoinder in everyday
    dialogue to the large novel or scientific treatise- has, so to speak, an
    absolute beginning and an absolute end; its beginning is preceded
    by the utterances of others, and its end is followed by the
    responsive utterances of others. (Speech Genres and Other Late
    Essays, 71)

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Important concepts:
    Simultaneity
    Architectonic
    Outsidedness

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Literature:
    A mere sign?
    Informatory or communicative?
    Individual or social?
    An utterance/ an ideological form: a realization of ideas

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Some dialogic tools:
    Irony
    Parody
    Humor
    Allusions

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Recontextualization/reversal of figure
    -ground metaphor
    Center

    Margin

    Margin at center

    center at margin

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Epic vs. Novel:
    Epic: a dead genre

    Novel: a novelizing process

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Novel as social discourse:

    Discourse of instruction
    Not based on memory or mere imagination
    Multi styled and multi languaged
    Everyday language
    Contemporary life
    Open to future

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism


    Bakhtin in Indian context:

    Is Indian ideological tradition dialogic?

    Thank you!

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