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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