Thank you Jim for taking the time to reply. Your research sounds very
interesting. I'm not sure if this will help with what you are doing
since it is possibly a repetition of what the rhetoricians are saying,
but I seeing rhetorical duality (which at the lower end of text sounds
very similar to your description of fragmentary logic)that I am
suggesting is a manifestation of examinee-voice (as rhetorical
positioning) within creative texts (stories, diaries, letters) written
in a high-stakes examination context. The results are fascinating and
the text-linguistic analysis supports the consistent presence of
multi-layered and multi-directional intertextual connections that
simultaneously align with and challenge the discourses embedded at
multi-textual levels in various Examination Texts (such as photos, a
poem, written excerpt, etc).
I'm not a cognitive scientist but I wonder if the multi-directionality
and varying text levels have something to do with the creative process
(the ability to make connections among seemingly unrelated ideas, etc.)?
I think I'll stop at that since I need to finish one thing (like my
dissertation) before I go onto the next fascinating topic. Thanks for
listening. I look forward to being informed as to your progress in
this area. Gloria
Quoting Jim Gough <[log in to unmask]>:
> Gloria: I'm not sure whether this is what you are looking for or
> whether it will even help. A colleague and I are working on
> developing research on what we call fragmentary logic, after a term
> coined by the economist Amatyra Sen. Unfortunately, all we know now
> is that in the case of some social phenomena it is possible to
> consistently get support in an argument for two opposing or
> inconsistent conclusions. For formal logicians this is a problem but
> for rhetoricians it is not a problem. When we get anything tangible
> to show we could send it on. Cheers, Jim
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: CASLL/Inkshed on behalf of Gloria Michalchuk
> Sent: Mon 4/23/2007 4:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: dual voicing?
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>
> 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-----
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>>> 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
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