The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's 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 intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
