Gloria,
Are you thinking of "mixed metaphor"?
--Linda
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From: Gloria Michalchuk <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:36 am
Subject: dual voicing?
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> Greetings. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of a term that
> describes what I'm referring to as "dual voicing" (or something
> similar) in any of the literature? The concept I'm referring to
> is
> the presence of contrasting rhetoric within a phrase or sentence;
> or
> another way of saying it might be the presence of contrasting
> lexicon
> or lexical phrases in one
> sentence. For example, "I stare in wonder at this eerie planet
> floating in a sea of darkness". Rhetorically, very interesting in an
> examination context in which the writer is probably aligning with an
> examination prompt; yet, the writer introduces adjectives and
> adjective phrases that send discordant rhetorical signals. I am
> familiar with allusion and the
> connotation-denotation divide...but, somehow these concepts don't
> quite capture what I'm trying to express.
>
> I've come across multi-voicing in the literature but that seems to
> refer to different types of forms of writing such as patch-work
> writing or the inclusion in an essay of poetry, an anecdote, a letter,
> etc.. My focus at this stage is not on the whole textual pattern
> but
> on the contrastive rhetorical and communicative features at the
> lower
> level of text (within a sentence). I anticipate my search to be a
>
> linguistic or literary term as compared to a term appropriate
> within
> theoretical (i.e. subjectivity) or intertextual analysis
> (i.e.Bakhtinian concept of multiple voices, etc.. At this stage
> of my
> writing, I'm sure any input would be helpful. Thanks. Gloria
>
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