...and by the anonymous discursive practices of which individual speakers might have little awareness. "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process, "-w A principal defect of the conventional philosophy of language — one shared by linguists, stylistic...

..."to become an active participant in social dialogue." It Is also to engage in a power struggle, for "language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...private property of the speaker's intentions." It belongs to the other, and "expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents,...

...and material forces out of which individuals and groups fashion a voice. As Bakhtin (1981) puts it: Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process, (p. 294) If language is inseparable from lived experience and the development of how people create...

...her father's speech and she struggles with it: to borrow Bakhtin's words about another's language, "[expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's...accents, is a difficult and complicated process,'" a process which Maggie comes to realize means sacrificing her father and taking control over the Prince....

...accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention .... Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process16 [my emphasis]. The process of intersubjectivity implied in Bakhtin's notion of "the word"...

...fall out of it; it is as if they put themselves in quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. (Emerson and Holquist's translation, slightly modified, 293-94) And, I would add, it is never an entirely...

...fall out of it; it is as if they put themselves in quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process.49 Words, and their meanings then, carry the intentions and contexts of historical subjects...

...Belsey. tion within the larger groups whose language we have adapted as our own. As Bakhtin writes, "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process" (294). This perspective sheds light on what is ideologically at stake in the fractured verbal performances...

...originating intention, not the property or tool of the individual ego, which in fact it always exceeds. "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...— overpopulated — with the intentions of others" (Dialogic Imagination 294). Each utterance achieves coherence or comprehensibility only through silencing...

...other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own. . . . Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...the private property of the speaker's intentions. . . . Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and...