LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons.
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Language can include socio-ideological contradictions from the past.
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Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it.
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Language is loaded with the intentions of others.
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Detailed explanation-1: -D. Language is loaded with the intentions of others.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Bakhtin is especially known for his work on the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Problemy tvorchestva Dostoyevskogo (1929; 2nd ed., 1963, retitled Problemy poetiki Dostoyevskogo; Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics), which he published under his own name just before he was arrested.
Detailed explanation-5: -"Carnivalization” is the term used by Mikhail Bakhtin in his works Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1929) and Rabelais and his World (1965) to describe the shaping effect on literary genres.