Is Dialogism for Real
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2935314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Hirschkop (0000-0003-1683-7967, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Issue | 30 |
| Pages | 102 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/466470 |
| OpenAlex | W2333299156 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Is dialogism real? In one sense, absolutely. How could one doubt it when discussion of this concept and of its most well known theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, has given rise to such a torrent of articles, books, conferences and commentary? It's real at least in the sense that, say, the 1986 Mets or rap turned out to be for real, its phenomenal success as a theoretical concept indicating it was an idea whose time had come. But even rap and the Mets, however dynastic their ambitions may have been, never claimed to have been there all along; the concept of dialogism, on the other hand, claims to identify a feature of language which was waiting to be discovered, something we hadn't noticed about the texts we worked with, but which, once acknowledged, would bring us at least as much pleasure as victory in the World Series or an evening with Bell Biv Devoe. When Bakhtin told us that those works we knew as
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Victory · Law · Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2015 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |