F. BOSTAD, C. BRANDIST, L. S. EVENSEN, H. C. FABER, Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture

Finn BOSTAD, Craig BRANDIST, Lars Sigfred EVENSEN, Hege Charlotte FABER, Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture. Meaning in Language, Art and New Media

New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 240 p.

ISBN: 1-4039-1690-X

Book Description:

In this multi-disciplinary volume, comprising the work of several established scholars from different countries, central concepts associated with the work of the Bakhtin Circle are interrogated in relation to intellectual history, language theory and an understanding of new media. The book will prove an important resource for those interested in the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle, but also for those attempting to develop a coherent theoretical approach to language in use and problems of meaning production in new media.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Thinking Culture Dialogically

PART ONE: THE BAKHTIN CIRCLE * Law and the Genres of Discourse: The Bakhtin Circle's Theory of Language and the Phenomenology of Right * Rhetoric, The Dialogical Principle and the Fantastic in Bakhtin's Thought * Bakhtin's Triadic Epistemology and Ideologies of Dialogism

PART TWO: THE THEORY OF LANGUAGE * Between Relativism and Absolutism: Towards an Emergentist Definition of Meaning Potential * Recontextualising Non-Bakhtiniam Theories of Language: A Bakhtinian Analysis * Language, Thinking and Embodiment: Bakhtin, Whorf and Merleau-Ponty * From Dialogue to Dialogism: The Confessions of a Writing Researcher

PART THREE: NEW TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL ART * Dialogue in Electronic Public Space: The Semiotics of Time, Space and the Internet * 'Thought Drawing': Dialogical Thinking and Dialogical Culture at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art * Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogic Imagination in Electronic Art * A Dialogue with an Idiot? Some Interactive Computer-Based Art

Author Biography:

Finn Bostad is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, in the field of human communication and new technology. He has published internationally on electronic discourse, and supervised a research program on ICT and learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is currently researching multimedia semiotics.

Craig Brandist is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and the Bakhtin Circle at Sheffield University. He is the author of Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel, and The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy Culture and Politics and co-editor of two collections of essays about the Bakhtin Circle.

Lars Sigfred Evensen is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He is the author of several articles in journals such as Written Communication and edited collections such as Coppock (ed.), The Semiotics of Writing. He is currently working on a monograph on the epistemological basis for applied linguistics.

Hege Charlotte Faber is Associate Professor in Art Theory and Philosophy at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is the author of The Artwork in the Age of Digital Media, and Thought Provoking and Refreshing Sound Art. She is currently working on a project about net art and aesthetics