Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture

Finn Bostad is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, In the field of human communication and new technology. He has published internationally on electronic discourse, and supervised a research program on ICT and learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is currently researching multimedia semiotics. Craig Brandist is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and the Bakhtin Circle at Sheffield University. He is the author of Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel, and The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy Culture and Politics and co-editor of two collections of essays about the Bakhtin Circle. Lars Sigfred Evensen is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He is the author of several articles in journals such as Written Communication and edited collections such as Coppock (ed.), The Semiotics of Writing. He is currently working on a monograph on the epistemological basis for applied linguistics. Hege Charlotte Faber is Associate Professor in Art Theory and Philosophy at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is the author of The Artwork in the Age of Digital Media, and Thought Provoking and Refreshing Sound Art. She is currently working on a project about net art and aesthetics.

• 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