Characters in Bakhtin's Theory

Wall, Anthony

doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1151

Cited by 3 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It is therefore important to clarify Bakhtin's conception of character, because “it occupies an essential place in his overall theory of novelistic discourse” (Wall, 1984: 42). Different genres give form to different ideologies, and present different sets of social relationships.…”

Section: The Chronotope and Stereotype In Sociolinguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration*

Creese

Blackledge

2019

Journal of Sociolinguistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Stereotypes are chronotopic (Bakhtin, 1994) in the sense that they make good use of character types in time and space to utter identifiable speech forms and make evident other semiotic displays. This paper argues for sociolinguistics to expand its interpretation of the chronotope to encompass the relationship between “character” and “author” in identity texts. It suggests that conflating author and character in identity scholarship, as is the case in much sociolinguistic research, risks losing an opportunity to understand how people author characters in their narratives to project sets of values and beliefs. Using linguistic ethnography, we report on two migrant women and their interactions among colleagues to illustrate their authoring of two characters, namely the peasant and the cosmopolitan. We show how these specific women mobilize these characters in narrative production to refute harmful traditions and ethnolinguistic stereotypes in favour of cosmopolitan identities which draw on broader geographical and social scales associated with the city.

show abstract

Section: The Chronotope and Stereotype In Sociolinguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration*

Creese

Blackledge

2019

Journal of Sociolinguistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The realistic novel is ‘heteroglossic’ because it provides an ‘orchestration of multiple social voices within an artistic unity’ (Bakhtin 1994:19). Heteroglossia enters through the characters’ discourse, which is a ‘polyphonic conveyor of otherness’ and a ‘product of unfinishedness’ (Wall 1984:45). Thus, while the hero or anti-hero of the epic tale is reliably static and fixed, the hero of the bildungsroman is fluid and malleable and shaped by time and space.…”

Section: The Chronotope and Other Literary Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘other woman’ in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji

Creese

Blackledge

2017

Lang. Soc.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article describes the range of discursive strategies in the socializing messages of a mother and daughter interaction. The analysis draws on the work of Bakhtin (1981) and Tannen (2007) to interrogate the role of a physically absent but discursively present sister-in-law, 'Mami Ji', across three speech events. Following Tannen, we show how the characterisation of the sisterin-law, Mami Ji, has chronotopic value that connects mother and daughter in the present and makes links across family histories. Through the discursive strategies of repetition, dialogue, detail, and translanguaging, 'Mami Ji' becomes an iconic benchmark of how not to speak, how not to dress, and how not to behave. Drawing on material from a linguistic ethnography approach, we present three discourse analyses from a much larger international project that also looked at classroom interaction and break-time conversations. The article contributes to the under-researched topic of the representation of sisters-in-law in discourse, theorises the chronotope in everyday conversation, and demonstrates how mother and daughter solidarity is achieved through opposition to another female family member. (Chronotope, linguistic involvement strategies, translanguaging, socialisation, sister-inlaws, mothers and daughters) I N T R O D U C T I O NMother and teenage daughter relationships are often reported as conflicted, argumentative, and confrontational-'relationship cockpits of gladiatorial combat' (Eagleton 2015:3). Much less is written about how they remain unified, connected, and sustained. Although the mother and daughter in this article face the usual minor tensions and conflicts, more apparent in their interactions is their orientation to sameness and connectedness. We present an interaction analysis of three interconnected speech events and describe how a mother and daughter create solidarity through distinguishing themselves from another woman and family member, 'Mami Ji'. The Panjabi kinship term for sister-in-law on the brother's side is Mami while Ji denotes formal respect. Mami Ji is therefore not the first name of the sister-inlaw in question, but the kinship term used throughout by mother and daughter to refer to a familial relationship.

show abstract

FanfictionNLP: A Text Processing Pipeline for Fanfiction

Yoder¹,

Khosla²,

Shen³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Fanfiction presents an opportunity as a data source for research in NLP, education, and social science. However, answering specific research questions with this data is difficult, since fanfiction contains more diverse writing styles than formal fiction. We present a text processing pipeline for fanfiction, with a focus on identifying text associated with characters. The pipeline includes modules for character identification and coreference, as well as the attribution of quotes and narration to those characters. Additionally, the pipeline contains a novel approach to character coreference that uses knowledge from quote attribution to resolve pronouns within quotes. For each module, we evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches on 10 annotated fanfiction stories. This pipeline outperforms tools developed for formal fiction on the tasks of character coreference and quote attribution.

show abstract

Characters in Bakhtin's Theory

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration*

Stereotypes and chronotopes: The peasant and the cosmopolitan in narratives about migration*

The ‘other woman’ in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji

FanfictionNLP: A Text Processing Pipeline for Fanfiction

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About