Gloria, Are you thinking of "mixed metaphor"? --Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: Gloria Michalchuk <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:36 am Subject: dual voicing? To: [log in to unmask] > 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 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-