Re: communicative functions
Ellice A Forman (ellice+ who-is-at pitt.edu)
Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:02:28 -0500 (EST)
Jay wrote on Feb. 1 "A text can maintain a consistent voice or frame and
so make that frame seem to disappear, not to be 'at stake'. Or it can
orchestrate multiple voices so that frame becomes negotiated and
contingent and highly visible."
Can you provide some references for that position--in addition to Lotman?
Did you find some of these ideas in Bakhtin (in his distinction between
monologic and heteroglossic texts) or elsewhere?
Ellice Forman