Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture

HANNELE DUFVA is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University Jyväskylä, Finland BERYL GRAHAM is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Art, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland, UK EDUARDO KAC is an Artist RENATE LACHMANN is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature, University of Constance, Germany MIKA LÄHTEENMÄKI is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland PER LINELL is Professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Sweden SIGMUND ONGSTAD is Professor of Norwegian at Oslo University College, Norway

List of figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Thinking Culture Dialogically; F.Bostad, C.Brandist, L.S.Evensen & H.C.Faber PART ONE: THE BAKHTIN CIRCLE Law and the Genres of Discourse: The Bakhtin Circle's Theory of Language and the Phenomenology of Right; C.Brandist Rhetoric, The Dialogue Principle and the Fantastic in Bakhtin's Thought; R.Lachmann Bakhtin's Triadic Epistemology and Ideologies of Dialogism; S.Ongstad PART TWO: THE THEORY OF LANGUAGE Between Relativism and Absolutism: Towards an Emergentist Definition of Meaning Potential; M.Lähteenmäki Recontextualising Non-Bakhtinian Theories of Language: A Bakhtinian Analysis; P.Linell Language, Thinking and Embodiment: Bakhtin, Whorf and Merleau-Ponty; H.Dufva From Dialogue to Dialogism: The Confessions of a Writing Researcher; L.S.Evensen PART THREE: NEW TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL ART Dialogue in Electronic Public Space: The Semiotics of Time, Space and the Internet; F.Bostad 'Thought Drawing': Dialogical Thinking and Dialogical Culture at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art; H.C.Faber Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogue Imagination in Electronic Art; E.Kac A Dialogue with an Idiot? Some Interactive Computer-Based Art; B.Graham Index