Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin

Authors

Frank Farmer

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Abstract

Farmer explores the relationship between the meaningful word and the meaningful pause, between saying and silence, especially as the relationship emerges in our classrooms, our disciplinary conversations, and encounters with publics beyond the academy. Each of his chapters here addresses some aspect of how we and our students, colleagues, and critics have our say and speak our piece, often under conditions where silence is the institutionally sanctioned and preferred alternative. He has enlisted a number of Bakhtinian ideas (the superaddressee, outsideness, voice in dialogue) to help in the project of interpreting the silences we hear, naming the silences we do not hear, and of encouraging all silences to speak in ways that are freely chosen, not enforced.

Document Type

Book

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Publication Date

2001

ISBN

9780874214512

City

Logan

Comments

Available as ebook or hard copy from USU Press.

Recommended Citation

Farmer, Frank, "Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin" (2001). All USU Press Publications. 130.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/130