Abstract
Voloshinov (1895–1936) is best known for his work on language ideology. Deeply dissatisfied with the linguistics of his day, Voloshinov sought to develop a new school rooted in social interaction, rather than in abstract structural characteristics, such as phonetics, lexicon, and grammar, which were increasingly being studied for their own sake. As he came to argue in his seminal work, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929), public discoruses are constructed in verbal encounters, where speakers negotiate perspective thought dialogic exchanges, often defending or even countering the dominant ideologies expressed elsewhere in a society. Because his new school of linguistics was based on the ideologically charged utterance, Voloshinov devoted a whole section of his work to problems of ‘reported speech’.
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