Heteroglossia in text‐messaging: Performing identity and negotiating relationships in a digital space

This article uses Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia to explore how linguistic repertoires are exploited in the performance of identity and management of relationships through text‐messaging. The study focuses on text‐messages sent and received by ‘Laura’, a middle‐class woman who has returned from university to her family home in rural England. Qualitative analysis of Laura's texted exchanges, informed by quantitative corpus data and ethnographic interview, details the role of heteroglossia as Laura and her interlocutors position themselves in relation to each other and negotiate differences in gender, class, education, past experience, and personal aspiration. The study shows how heteroglossia can emerge even in interactions between individuals from similar backgrounds with largely shared language resources, and highlights the need for sociolinguistic studies of linguistic repertoire to consider the part that digitally‐mediated linguistic resources play in individuals’ wider identity projects.     

Was Killing the Queer Author Necessary to Liberate the Queer Text?: The Case of Andy Warhol's A: A Novel

In the decades since Roland Barthes' “The Death of the Author” (1968), Michel Foucault's “What Is an Author?” (1969), and Andy Warhol's novel A (1968), we have become comfortable with the idea that the author is separate from the text. In many ways, however, killing the author was an unnecessary act since critics inherently read their own ideas into texts. Within the span of less than two years, all three texts proposed the removal of the author from the text, all three by prominent gay men in academia and art. The act of removing the author represented a kind of closet protection, separating artist from art, author from text. This aricle examines the convergence of ideas of Barthes and Foucault and how they relate to Warhol's A. In these writers and texts, we see a sexuality eager to burst forth from the page, but one that is hesitant, worried that the sexual politics of the late 1960s are not so liberated as to freely accept homosexuality among the artistic and academic elite. This is the real tragedy in the death of the author, when the identity and spirit of the artist/writer is so denied by the audience that not only is the sexuality lost, but the artist as well.     

从评价理论的介入观点看学术语篇中的互动特征

从Bakhtin的话语多声性入手,借助系统功能语言学评价理论的介入观点探讨学术语篇的互动特征及其一系列的语言体现手段。语篇互动特征反映了语篇作者和读者间人际意义的构建,为探讨语篇中身份、亲和、权势及威信的建立及动态地研究语篇提供了借鉴意义。     

英语责任型情态及其语篇中态度与立场的解析

系统功能语言学拓展了英语情态的研究,将情态语言系统下分为情态化和意态化,并对所表达的人际功能进行了论述。意态化对应于逻辑中区分的责任型情态,论文基于系统功能语言学关于此类情态的论述,结合巴赫金话语多声的概念,以三篇有关哥本哈根气候会议报刊社论为语料,分析社论语篇的功能语旨,即对重要事件和问题表达媒体的态度和立场,如何得以体现。