Gloria: Interesting stuff. First, I reviewed a book recently which is
the most readable one I've encountered on cognitive science/psychology
called "Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge" by Gerald M.
Edelman (sorry I can't remember the publisher or date)which indicates
that muliti-layered pattern recognition is the prevalent view of how the
brain works. This is a short and easy to follow book. His thesis might
fit your multi-directionality and varying levels idea, if I understand
it. Second, my research is on the relationship between reasoning/logic
and the dissention within the ranks over multi-culturalism, which also
might fit your text reading interpretation. At any rate, back to your
thesis. Let nothing detract you. Cheers, Jim
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Subject: Re: dual voicing?
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
>
> ________________________________
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> From: CASLL/Inkshed on behalf of Gloria Michalchuk
> Sent: Mon 4/23/2007 4:18 PM
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> 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
>>
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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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