Thank you so much for these terms, two of which I have never heard of and one that I had not thought of. I'll definitely search for the Fludernik reference and try a broad search for "catachresis"? Would you happen to have a source or rremember where you read about it Sean? Thanks again to all for helping out. Gloria Quoting shurli makmillen <[log in to unmask]>: > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > >> Date: Mon Apr 23 07:29:42 PDT 2007 >> From: "Gloria Michalchuk" <[log in to unmask]> >> 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/ >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > -- > shurli makmillen > PhD candidate > department of english > university of british columbia > 397 - 1873 east mall > vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 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/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-