scholarly journals Heteroglossia and Constructed Dialogue in SLA

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARREN LaSCOTTE ◽  
ELAINE TARONE
Keyword(s):  
Constructed Dialogue

Two regimes of the symbolic: radical democracy between Romanticism and structuralism

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Warren Breckman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
German Romanticism ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
History Of

The ‘symbolic’ has found its way into the heart of contemporary radical democratic theory. When one encounters this term in major theorists such as Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, our first impulse is to trace its genealogy to the offspring of the linguistic turn, structuralism and poststructuralism. This paper seeks to expose the deeper history of the symbolic in the legacy of Romanticism. It argues that crucial to the concept of the symbolic is a polyvalence that was first theorized in German Romanticism. The linguistic turn that so marked the twentieth century tended to suppress this polyvalence, but it has returned as a crucial dimension of contemporary radical political theory and practice. At stake is more than a recovery of historical depth. Through a constructed dialogue between Romanticism and the thought of both Žižek and Laclau, the paper seeks to provide a sharper appreciation of the resources of the concept of the symbolic.

When a ‘non-issue’ becomes an issue in discourse surrounding LGBT communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-256
Author(s):  
Corinne A. Seals
Keyword(s):  
Religious Right ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Lgbt Issues ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
Semantic Presupposition ◽  
Ballot Measure ◽  
The Ideal

This paper uses the theory of intertextuality to examine the discourse surrounding California’s Proposition 8, the statewide ballot measure to reverse legalization of same-sex marriage. More specifically, this paper analyzes the newspaper reports that surfaced in February 2010, concerned with the fact that the judge deciding the case is a gay man. The initial story, which claimed that this should be a “non-issue,” sparked a multitude of articles aimed at different readerships over the following week, therein making the “non-issue” an issue. I analyze how intertextuality is used by three types of news sources (LGBT, mainstream, and Religious Right) to report the same issue but in ways specifically aimed at the ideal reader of each. I argue that the way intertextuality occurs in constructed dialogue, lexical choice, and semantic presupposition creates an ideological message meant for and decodable by each publication’s ideal reader, therein reinforcing group ideologies about LGBT issues.

Crossing boundaries: The nexus of time, space, person, and place in narrative

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
And Function

ABSTRACTRecent research on narrative has widened the scope of analysis, suggesting the value of reexamining the canonical Labovian view of the structure and function of personal-experience narrative. This article suggests that narrative is not simply a way of evoking and shaping experience in time. Rather, narrative can evoke and shape cultural “chronotopes” (Bakhtin 1981) or nexuses of time, space, and identity. To illustrate this, I analyze a narrative from an oral history related in 1972 by a young woman whose volunteer work in the mid-1960s led to the rehabilitation of a small African American enclave in a middle-class White suburb. Analysis of clause types, constructed dialogue, existential there, deixis, verb chains, and referring expressions shows that the narrative is a blend of genres evoking place as well as personal identity linked to complex coordinates of time and space, and dependent intertextually on other parts of a larger story. (Narrative, oral history, chronotope, space, place, identity, genre)*

“One of the last vestiges of gender bias”: The characterization of women through the telling of dirty jokes in Ally McBeal

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia M Bubel ◽  
Alice Spitz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
The Us ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractBased on an audience-centered model of television discourse, we show that verbal interaction is one of the principal means of characterization in film. One of the linguistic phenomena screenwriters exploit and manipulate to develop their characters is verbal humor. For instance, the ways in which interactants on screen produce and respond to jokes is critical in their characterization. We look at an episode of the US American sitcom Ally McBeal, in which two women tell dirty jokes. We show that although the structure of both jokes as well as their respective performance equally meet the demands of good (tellings of) jokes, the screenplay is constructed in such a way that one of them fails to elicit laughter. This is achieved through creating expectations in the viewer prior to the telling of the jokes and through having the women frame their jokes dierently. This research has implications for the study of both gender and humor in conversation, for even though we look at constructed dialogue, it yields insight into underlying knowledge about real conversation.

"He Said What?!": Constructed Dialogue in Various Interface Modes

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesa Young ◽  
Carla Morris ◽  
Clifton Langdon
Keyword(s):  
Constructed Dialogue

The polyphonic pastor

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-443
Author(s):  
Joshua Kraut
Keyword(s):  
Speech Rate ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Signaling Mechanisms ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Contextualization Cues ◽  
American Minister

Abstract The current study draws on insights from research on reported speech, or more accurately what Tannen (2007) calls “constructed dialogue” to elucidate its role as an argumentative device as observed in a journalistic interview with a prominent American minister. I explore diverse techniques the minister uses to marshal a multiplicity of respected voices – an impressive Bakhtinian polyphony – to defend faith. An important contribution of this study lies in its integration of what Gumperz (1977, 1982) calls “contextualization cues”, paralinguistic signaling mechanisms (stress, pitch, speech rate, etc.), and constructed dialogue as phenomena which function together. The study reveals how various contextualization cues embedded within constructed dialogue contribute to framing knowledge claims as reliable.

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