Language as Evaluative Utterance
A Bakhtinian Analysis of Colonial News Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Redouan El Ayadi (corresponding author), Andrew R Smith (0000-0001-5302-3343) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-347 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Russian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19409419.2008.10756721 |
| OpenAlex | W2030665579 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
For Bakhtin, the evaluative aspect of utterances is crucial to the study of meaning in communication, which is impoverished in linguistically based approaches. Bakhtin’s dialogic view of evaluative meaning is manifested in the intricate tonal, gestural and other stylistic ways in which the evaluative stance of the reporting speech frames and permeates not only the referential content of the reported speech but also the evaluative stance toward referential content. This double-voiced character of speech, which ambiguates reference, suggests that evaluation does not reside in addressor intentionality alone, but metalinguistically in addressee orientation to messages whose senses vary indiosyncratically and extralinguistically. The task of critical analysis is to show how that judgment is structured and functions in discourse, as the authors in this essay do with a sample of colonial news discourse from the Times of Morocco—a British daily paper published in Tangier at the end of the 19th century. The Times served as one public instrument that helped to rationalize colonization. Recognition of the play of evaluative meaning is crucial for understanding and criticizing authoritative colonial characterizations of subjects that serve as a rationale for invasion, occupation and exploitation
Colonialism · Conversation · Dialogic · Epistemology · Heteroglossia · Intentionality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Sociology · Utterance · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
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Indirect speech acts
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
How To Do Things With Words
Contributions of the Bakhtin Circle to 'Communicative Competence'
Relationships as dialogues
Critical Productions of Discourse
Dialogue, Pluralism, and Change
Dialogue in Agony
Shouts on the Street
Plurality in Dialogue
Speech Acts
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |