What I've been chewing on, then regurgitating, then chewing on again of late: Applied Linguistics. Specifically the Soviet scholar Mikhail Bakhtin's writings, and a bit of Dell Hymes's communicative competence. Basically I'm obsessed with Bakhtin, yet there are important similarities in both their ideas: their explicit opposition to the Saussurian dichotomy between langue and parole; their belief that speech is both structured and emergent; their research on literature as well as language; and their conceptions of language acquisition.
Bakhtin analysed the intrinsic intertextuality of all utterances, and the consequences of heteroglossia for speakers and writers–notably, intrapersonal conflicts during the process of expression because of the auras that accrue to language forms from awareness of their previous contextualized use.
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