scholarly journals The Bakhtin Circle’s dialog in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Huy Bac ◽  
Dao Thi Thu Hang ◽  
Le Nguyen Phuong
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Dialogic Theory

AbstractIn this article, we use Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive method to study the influence of Mikhail Bakhtin in Vietnam in the 1990s and 2000s. By using evaluations of Bakhtin by researchers in Vietnam and around the world, we argue that he is not the only owner of the theory of dialog and polyphony. His friends, Pavel Medvedev and Valentin Voloshinov, also played important roles in defining these concepts. The Bakhtin Circle’s dialog theory is related to the sense of democracy in society. The work of Bakhtin was introduced to Vietnam in the 1980s and led to a “Bakhtin fever” throughout Vietnam. However, he has been less overrated recently. We also discover a mistake in the dialogic theory of the Bakhtin Circle. The members of the Circle said that the nature of language is dialogic, which means that whenever language is used, either in literature or in common life, it is always polyphonic. Based on this claim, novels use language to tell stories, so novels are polyphonic. The Bakhtin Circle was mistaken when labeling Dostoevsky’s novels as polyphonic and Tolstoy’s novels as monologic. In the same vein, the Bakhtin Circle strongly believed that language in poetry is always monologic. We think this claim is also wrong. Dialogicality appears in all kinds of poetic languages.

Preserving the world for Christ

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThe practices, habits and convictions that once allowed the inhabitants of Christendom to determine what they could reasonably do and say together to foster a just and equitable common life have slowly been displaced over the past few centuries by new configurations which have sought to maintain an inherited faith in an underlying purpose to human life while disassociating themselves from the God who had been the beginning and end of that faith. In the end, however, these new configurations are incapable of sustained deliberations about the basic conditions of our humanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology provides important clues into what it takes to make and keep human life human in such a world. The first part of this essay examines Bonhoeffer's conception of the last things, the things before the last, and what binds them together. He argues that the things before the last do not possess a separate, autonomous existence, and that the positing of such a breach has had disastrous effects on human beings and the world they inhabit. The second part looks at Bonhoeffer's account of the divine mandates as the conceptual basis for coping with a world that has taken leave of God. Though this account of the mandates has much to commend it, it is hindered by problematic habits of interpretation that leave it vacillating between incommensurable positions. Bonhoeffer's incomplete insights are thus subsumed within Augustine's understanding of the two orders of human society set forth in City of God.

scholarly journals Speech Genres, of Mikhail Bakhtin

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Puzzo
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Dialogic Theory

The recent Paulo Bezerra’s translation of Bakhtin’s essay Speech genres (1952-1953) has shed new light on Bakhtin’s dialogic theory. Although the translator has already translated this essay that integrates collection Aesthetics of verbal creation (2003), to pull it apart from the collection to relaunch it along with The text in linguistics, in philology and other human sciences (1959- 1961), he seeks to illuminate some aspects little emphasized in the old translation.

scholarly journals Principle of dialogue in Mikhail Bakhtin’s poetics

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Phan Trong Hoang Linh
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Systematic Relationship ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Poetics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Counter Argument

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895 - 1975) had a great influence on the history of modern poetics in the world. From the 1980s onwards, the adoption of Bakhtin's poetics was of great significance, contributing to the development of poetics in Vietnam in nearly four decades. One of the essential foundations for his theory is the principle of dialogue. However, applying the principle of dialogue in a systematic relationship with Bakhtin's academic legacy, especially its relation to the principle of carnaval, has never become easy for a consensus. The duty of this essay is to analyze the principle of dialogue in a systematic view. Dialogue is first a linguistic principle proposed on the basis of counter-argument of the linguistic theory of F.D. Saussure. The carnaval principle is a cultural basis for applying the principle of dialogue into the study of literature. By connecting these two principles to a system, Bakhtin wanted to promote the study of literature to cultural poetics. Applying the principle of dialogue for study Dostoievski’s work, he discovered the kind of novel that had never appeared before: polyphonic novel. This type of novel contains a new structure in the relationship between the author and the character, and if not based on the principle of dialogue, it is difficult to understand its full value.

Introduction: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods

Divercities ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Stijn Oosterlynck ◽  
Gert Verschraegen ◽  
Ronald van Kempen
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The World

This introductory chapter provides an overview of super-diversity. Contemporary cities have seen an increasing diversity of migration in terms of countries of origin, ethnic groups, languages and religions, gender, age profiles, and labour market experiences. Complex migration and asylum regimes have further contributed to the process of diversification through the multiplication of immigration legal statuses (civic stratification). Super-diversity has become especially apparent in cities that are designated as ‘global cities’, on the basis of their ability to draw heterogeneous people from all parts of the world. This book is thus concerned with the question of how urbanites from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, occupying different socioeconomic positions, speaking different languages and often with different legal statuses, can make a common life together in their city or neighbourhood.

The Word as Dialogue: The Lyrical Apostrophe vis-à-vis the Dialogic Theory of Mikhail Bakhtin

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-105
Author(s):  
Dorottya Szávai
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Dialogic Theory

The present paper aims to explore aspects of Bakhtin’s dialogic model and, in a wider sense, of discourse and language theory, which can be related to the dialogic structures of the lyrical genre. We propose to reread Bakhtin’s dialogic theory, approaching it from other (mainly postmodern) literary discourses, and to situate Bakhtin’s oeuvre, which “stands alone” and is hard to fit into theoretical trends, in literary theory. We consider it especially significant to approach the dialogic devices of Bakhtin’s theory from the perspective of literary hermeneutics and deconstruction.

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