LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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The concept of “ multi-accentuality of sign’ was put forward by
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Volosinov
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Barthes
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Sassure
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Plato
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The openness of words to more than one interpretation. A notion advanced by Voloshinov and/or Bakhtin in 1929 in response to the alleged fixity of meaning in Saussure’s conception of language.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Voloshinov’s view, the meaning of verbal signs is the arena of continuous class struggle: a ruling class will try to narrow the meaning of social signs, making them “uni-accentual", but the clash of various class-interests in times of social unrest will make clear the “multi-accentuality” of words.
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