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Recontextualizing Non-Bakhtinian Theories of Language: a Bakhtinian Analysis

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Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture

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In this chapter I will suggest how to ‘think dialogically’ about one particular cultural tradition, that of language studies mainly within one scholarly discipline, namely linguistics. Even if my account will not be a straightforward application of Bakhtinian thinking, it is, I would argue, very much in the spirit of Bakhtin.

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  1. Per Linell
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Finn Bostad (Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics) (Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics)

  2. Russian in the Bakhtin Centre and Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

    Craig Brandist (Reader) (Reader)

  3. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Lars Sigfred Evensen (Professor of Applied Linguistics) (Professor of Applied Linguistics)

  4. Art Theory and Philosophy at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Hege Charlotte Faber (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Linell, P. (2004). Recontextualizing Non-Bakhtinian Theories of Language: a Bakhtinian Analysis. In: Bostad, F., Brandist, C., Evensen, L.S., Faber, H.C. (eds) Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005679_6

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