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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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