...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...

...it. "It becomes 'one's own,'" Bakhtin explains, "only when the speaker populates it with his [or her] own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention" (DI 293). Maggie's attempt to make her father's word into her own "private property," to wrest it from...

...opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention .... Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the...

...words used in other contexts to express others' accents and intonations and meanings. As Bakhtin says, "The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention" (Dialogic, p. 293). In fact, Bakhtin talks about the three participants in a discourse event: the speaker,...

.... language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a 43 neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets...

...opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention, (p. 293) ... One's own discourse is gradually and slowly wrought out of others' words that have been...

.... language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention.12 Through his editorial interventions Las Casas not only insinuates himself into Columbus's...

...concrete thing . . . language . . . lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. (The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by MM Bakhtin, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and...

...language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderDilVlQ line between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. (293) One's own discourse is gradually and slowly wrought out of others' words that have been acknowledged...

...passages from The Dialogic Imagination: [Language] lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes...own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive...