Bakhtinian Dialogic Discourse

Abstract

Bakhtinian Dialogic Discourse This article examines Bakhtin's dialogic discourse and reconsiders its elements such as heteroglossia, polyphony, and carnivalism. Heteroglossia is the conflictive languages which are heard through social and cultural discourses among the characters in literary works. In contrast to heteroglossia, polyphony is the discourses, which are generated through individuals' personal issues. Nevertheless, like heteroglossia, it also allows us to hear double-or multiple-voiced language. Bakhtin developed them to analyze literary genres. Carnivalism is considered as a comprehensive being of heteroglossia and polyphony. This article explores it as the element of Bakhtin's dialogic discourse showing both aspects of heteroglossia and polyphony. In particular, in relation to socio-historical implications of the elements, Bakhtin utilized them to describe the definition of novel and its position in literature.