DIALOGISM AS AN ASPECT OF LANGUAGE

Author (s) : Dr.M.Sathiyaraj, R.Gayathiridevi & Vasanthi

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Abstract :
A discourse may be briefly defined as an utterance type of natural language which realizing a sequence of sentences satisfies a number of properties. Besides appropriate grammaticalness of sentences at the syntactic level, there are many important properties defining the textual nature of a sequence of sentences expressed by a discourse; such as coherence, relevance, and intertextuality. These properties help reflect the dialogism aspect of language. Bakhtin (1986) argues that every text (or utterance) is dialogical, in the sense that it gains its meaning in relation to other texts. And Kristeva (1980), sharing Bakhtin’s idea of dialogism claims that the process of meaning depends on the dialogue between the text and the reader and between the texts themselves. As a semantic property of a text, coherence ideally holds both for monological and dialogical discourse, defines the delimitation of a discourse with respect to previous and following discourses in speech interaction. And relevance is the key to understanding coherence and interpretation of utterances. Finally, there is the intertextuality as an aspect of text organization that deals with the relationship between texts, and how a text depends on one or more previous texts to make a sense, i.e., the sense and relevance of one text depends upon knowing about paragraph and applying the content of the newly produced text to the evolving situation. This paper analyses the ways in terms of the contribution of coherence, relevance and intertextuality in producing new texts.

Keywords : realizing, intertextuality, monological, interpretation of utterances

Conference Date : 17/09/2021

Pages : 245

Paper ID : IESMDT243