...neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions. . . . Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process. (DI, 293-94, 276-77) Walker's hybrid blending of epistolary and slave narrative is uniquely suited...

...their utterances and that are, as the example of Amy shows, by nature in conflict with one another. 'Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...is a difficult and complicated process' (Bakhtin, cited in Cazden 1989: 122). Rather than being monolithic speakers of our native language, 'we are the...

...because of the "auras" that accrue to those forms from awareness of their previous contextualized use: Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...private property of the speaker's intentions; it is populated—overpopulated— with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit...

...tracks veering off in every direction. In this forest, all ways are equally obscure or equally clear: Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...difficult and complicated process. (Bakhtin, 1981: 294) Dialogue and community are always possible, given a certain sharing of knowledge, ways, and purposes....

...and another's words is waged, a process in which they oppose or dialogically interanimate each other: "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accounts, is a difficult and complicated process" (Bakhtin l98l [l934-35]: 294). In an FCR article...

...its fictive construction of competing social and ideological discourses, forces the recognition that "language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...— overpopulated — with the intentions of others" (p. 294). Bakhtin's assertion that "language is always half someone else's" (p. 293) may be given special...

...speaker's intentions; it is populated -over populated with the intentions of uthers Expropnatmg, forcutg it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process Expropriating Malintzin from the texts of others and filling her with the intentions, significances,...

...Bakhtin goes on to make bis characteristic emphasis on the resistance of all language to appropriation: "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process" (Dialogic 294). To my hearing, some of the finest, and most refined, applications of Bakhtinian analysis...

...fall out of it; it is as if they put themselves in quotation marks against the will of the speaker. Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...and accents, is a difficult and complicated process, (pp. 293-294) What makes appropriation so difficult is that discourses are inherently ideological;...

...description of the behavioral background), Rosa's utterance enters the world pregnant. As Bakhtin noted well: "Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely...it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accounts, is a difficult and complicated process" (1981: 294). The utterance is shaped to fit its occasion....