Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- PART I IDEOLOGIES IN DIALOGUE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- PART II VOICED, DOUBLE VOICED, AND MULTIVOICED DISCOURSES IN OUR SCHOOLS
- 5 Performance as the Foundation for a Secondary School Literacy Program: A Bakhtinian Perspective
- 6 Double Voiced Discourse: African American Vernacular English as Resource in Cultural Modeling Classrooms
- 7 Narratives of Rethinking: The Inner Dialogue of Classroom Discourse and Student Writing
- 8 Ever Newer Ways to Mean: Authoring Pedagogical Change in Secondary Subject-Area Classrooms
- Voices in Dialogue – Multivoiced Discourses in Ideological Becoming
- PART III HETEROGLOSSIA IN A CHANGING WORLD
- PART IV A CLOSING THOUGHT ON BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVES
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Titles in the series
- References
Voices in Dialogue – Multivoiced Discourses in Ideological Becoming
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- PART I IDEOLOGIES IN DIALOGUE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- PART II VOICED, DOUBLE VOICED, AND MULTIVOICED DISCOURSES IN OUR SCHOOLS
- 5 Performance as the Foundation for a Secondary School Literacy Program: A Bakhtinian Perspective
- 6 Double Voiced Discourse: African American Vernacular English as Resource in Cultural Modeling Classrooms
- 7 Narratives of Rethinking: The Inner Dialogue of Classroom Discourse and Student Writing
- 8 Ever Newer Ways to Mean: Authoring Pedagogical Change in Secondary Subject-Area Classrooms
- Voices in Dialogue – Multivoiced Discourses in Ideological Becoming
- PART III HETEROGLOSSIA IN A CHANGING WORLD
- PART IV A CLOSING THOUGHT ON BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVES
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Titles in the series
- References
Summary
Mikhail Bakhtin suggests that in the midst of our struggle to interpret and understand the dialogic relationships that exist when two distinct discourses come together, we fight to construct new ways to mean and, at the same time, reconstruct and reconfigure our ideological consciousness:
Another's discourse performs here no longer as information, directions, rules, models and so forth – but strives to determine the very basis of our ideological interrelations with the world, the very basis of our behavior; it performs here as authoritative discourse, and an internally persuasive discourse.
Both the authority of the discourse and its internal persuasiveness may be united in one word – one that is simultaneously authoritative and internally persuasive – despite the profound differences between these two categories of alien discourse. But such unity is rarely given – it happens more frequently that an individual's becoming, an ideological process, is characterized precisely by a sharp gap between these two categories. … The struggle and dialogic interrelationship of these categories of ideological discourse are what usually determine the history of an individual consciousness.
(Bakhtin, 1981, p. 342)I believe this notion of ideological becoming is the core of Bakhtinian theory. I have come to think of ideological becoming as an ever-evolving collection of meanings that have been forged upon our consciousness as a consequence of the individual ways we partake of the dialogic offerings that come before us.
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- Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning , pp. 203 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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