It has been nearly fifty years since Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) put forward the term "dialogic imagination" in the title of his four essays on language and the novel, thereby announcing a new direction in linguistic and literary research. In the present volume, we revisit Bakhtinian (and marginally Buberian) thought from three perspectives: discourse, literary text, and interaction in educational settings. It is how we intend to pay tribute and homage to the div...
The present monograph is an academic endeavour to delineate a variety of depictions in relation to the universal and all-encompassing notion of identity which defines who we are and what qualities we possess. At the same time these properties which determine who we are help us distinguish from each other.
