Abstract
During the period of the New Economic Policy, as Lenin sought, rather abashedly, to approach communism via a new form of state capitalism, and as the concrete mode of peasant existence was being transformed into the abstractions of industrial labor, the contradictions between synchrony and diachrony, between sincerity and irony, between insistences simultaneously upon meaning and multivocality were in full flower. The work of the Bakhtin school may be located within this milieu of contradiction. It is clear that Mikhail Bakhtin's project was not a linguistics but, to use his word, a metalinguistics, an attempt to avoid an essentialist view of language and to see, within a social and historical frame, the creation and uses of both language and the term language.' As Bakhtin wrote in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics:
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.