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?
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
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> 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]
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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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