...long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write. Frederick Douglass . . . language, for the individual consciousness, lies on...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language...

...show that she possesses herself. Let me return to Bakhtin's explanation that the "word" or language becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language...

...speaking but spoken. Here we may recall Bakh tin's remark in The Dialogic Imagination, where he says, "The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...when the speaker populates it with his own intention" (293). Where Bakhtin writes intention we may read resolve; it is the tensing in, the gathering of oneself...

...her narrative also manages to elude the gender trap and to authorize a woman's Life. 10 Conclusion The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language...

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...in which it has lived its socially charged life; all words and forms are populated by intentions — As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language...

...which it has lived its socially charged life; all words and forms are populated with intentions. ... As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language...

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...1981), the process whereby one voice speaks through another voice or voice type in a social language: "The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language...

...reappropriation of language. Bakhtin describes the significance of such a process in The Dialogic Imagination: [Language, for the individual consciousness, lies..."one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive...