or Free Indirect Discourse? I'm thinking of Monica Fludernik's comprehensive exploration of FID in The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction
shurli
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> Date: Mon Apr 23 07:29:42 PDT 2007
> From: "Gloria Michalchuk" <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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shurli makmillen
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