He fleshes out what it means for language to be socially stratified (or categorized recursively through the interaction of people) for example, he moves away from models of language that pin it as “a system of abstract grammatical categories” or formal/phonetic linguistic markers rather, language is stratified along socio-ideological lines: “the languages of social groups, ‘professional’ and ‘generic’ languages, languages of generations and so forth” (272). He highlights two points that he elaborates on more fully as he moves forward: that form and content are intimately intertwined (via genre) and that discourse is a social phenomenon, dialogic in nature. (164 pages)īakhtin outlines his argument succinctly in the opening paragraph, “Form and content in discourse are one, once we understand the verbal discourse is a social phenomenon-social throughout its entire range and in each and every of its factors, from the sound image to the furthest reaches of abstract meaning” (259). “Discourse in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination.Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
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