ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dialogics or dialogism, according to Bakhtin, means the process which meaning is evolved out of interactions among the author, the work and the reader or listener. Also these elements are affected by the contexts in which they are placed, namely by social and political forces.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term is used to describe concepts in literary theory and analysis as well as in philosophy. Along with dialogism, the term can refer to concepts used in the work of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, especially the texts Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics and The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bakhtin states that the listener also creates understanding by uttering appropriate responses to the speaker’s speech. So he believes that meaning only occurs inside a dialogue. From this point of view language is something more than an arrangement of grammatical structures, language is connected to ideology.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bakhtin’s major concepts include dialogue (and monologue), heteroglossia, genre, carnival/carnivalesque, centripetal/centrifugal forces, and authorship. Dialogue may be the most commonly referenced Bakhtinian concept and yet it may also be the most misunderstood.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1929, “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Art", Bakhtin’s first major work, was published. It is here that Bakhtin introduces the concept of dialogism.