Week 7 Miscellany
From Barthes, S/Z (1970):
“Or again: each code is one of the forces that can take over the text…one of the voices out of which the text is woven. Alongside each utterance, one might say that off-stage voices can be heard: they are the codes: in their interweaving, these voices (whose origin is ‘lost’ in the vast perspective of the already-written) de-originate the utterance: the convergence of the voices (of the codes) becomes writing, a stereographic space where the five codes, the five voices, intersect…”
From Bakhtin, “Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences” (Speech Genres & Other Late Essays):
“There is neither a first nor a last word and there are no limits to the dialogic context (it extends into the boundless past and the boundless future. Even past meanings, that is, those born in the dialogue of past centuries, can never be stable (finalized, ended once and for all) – they will always change (be renewed) in the process of subsequent, future development of the dialogue. At any moment in the development of the dialogue there are immense, boundless masses of forgotten contextual meanings, but at certain moments of the dialogue’s subsequent development along the way they are recalled and invigorated in renewed form (in a new context). Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival.”
Speech genres in action? (speech genres and/as comedy)
