...conducive to heteroglossia: 'As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as heteroglot opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on...other. The word in language is half someone else's'. 1 Bakhtin sees poetry as the form that resists this, working against the odds and in a state of tension...

...takes on form and meaning. The crucial fact attending all concrete discourse in Bakhtin's view is this: "language, for the individual consciousness, lies...other. The word in language is half someone else's." Before someone appropriates a word for his or her own purposes "it exists in other people's mouths,...

...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...

...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...

...provide the following translation: "As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as heteroglot opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other."9 Robinson claims to "double voice" the quotation according to his own devices: "As a living,...

...words to their own intents in one of his most-quoted passages from The Dialogic Imagination: lLanguage] lies on the borderline between oneself and the other....own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapring it to his own semantic and expressive...

...words to their own intents in one of his most-quoted passages from The Dialogic Imagination: [Language] lies on the borderline between oneself and the other....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...

...language? Why must literacy for the Deaf students mean English literacy? CHOOSING OUR OWN LANGUAGE 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 expression...

...efforts of articulation from one discourse to the next, such a black struggle-inlanguage arises because: The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when ... the speaker appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment...

...conception holds. To quote Bakhtin, "As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as heteroglot opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other." 40 Because language is a collective creation it is always "half someone else's," but it also becomes...